Libertarians vs Peaceful Parenting

Stefan Molyneux

Sunday Morning Live 1 September 2024  In this episode, I tackle the challenges of political expression in a climate of fear and hostility, responding to a listener's experience of backlash for supporting a candidate. We discuss the complexities of political allegiance, coercion, and the implications of silence in discourse. The conversation broadens to examine economic dependency and its effect on societal attitudes toward change, alongside philosophical questions about self-ownership and moral principles. I critique the neglect of peaceful parenting in libertarian thought, highlighting its role in perpetuating cycles of violence. Ultimately, I stress the importance of action over rhetoric, particularly in parenting, as a means to foster values of non-aggression and freedom in future generations. This episode invites reflection on personal beliefs and the legacy we create.  GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND AUDIOBOOK!  https://peacefulparenting.com/  Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!  Also get the Truth About the French Revolution, the interactive multi-lingual philosophy AI trained on thousands of hours of my material, private livestreams, premium call in shows, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more!  See you soon!  https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2022

Transcript

00:00:00Good morning, 1st of September 2024, freedomain.com to help out the show and we've got some great

00:00:09questions this morning already, already and let's get straight to it.

00:00:19Good morning, Steph.

00:00:20Thank you for the tip.

00:00:21I have truly enjoyed listening to this show.

00:00:23I have learned a tremendous amount about myself and the world.

00:00:27I have a question if you have a chance to look it over.

00:00:29I want to put up a flag supporting my chosen presidential candidate but last time I did

00:00:33so it was stolen off my property and destroyed.

00:00:38My question is should I put up a flag or should I support in secret?

00:00:43I feel like I'm being slowly silenced and pushed to comply due to unhinged individuals.

00:00:47Thank you.

00:00:48Well, are they unhinged?

00:00:50Are they unhinged?

00:00:53People are, I mean, concerned about a second Trump presidency.

00:00:58I assume that that's what was stolen and they're concerned that there might be more job creation.

00:01:07They're concerned that there might be less money available for welfare.

00:01:11They're concerned that people, if they have cushy government jobs, that they might get

00:01:14fired.

00:01:16People have adapted now for several generations to live off government money.

00:01:21Repeat after me.

00:01:23People have adapted now for several generations to live off government money and they don't

00:01:31like anything that threatens that government money.

00:01:34Of course, right?

00:01:35I mean, you tell me an animal alive that's indifferent as to the viability of its food

00:01:41source.

00:01:43Such a creature does not exist.

00:01:46So one of the reasons why, of course, your flag would be stolen and destroyed is because,

00:01:58and it's a funny thing, you know, the amount, and this is why I'm not in politics, it's

00:02:01all become smoke and mirrors for the most part, right?

00:02:04So now it's like, well, Trump has this many people at his rally, but Kamala Harris has

00:02:09only this many people at her rally and people are actually making their decisions based

00:02:13on how many people are showing up.

00:02:16This person is popular.

00:02:17This person is unpopular.

00:02:19This person is nice.

00:02:20This person is orange.

00:02:21This person is weird.

00:02:22This person is not weird.

00:02:24I mean, it's really, it is, it's like trying to philosophize with pre-verbal toddlers,

00:02:32right?

00:02:33I mean, there's really nothing you can, nothing you can, reason has left the building.

00:02:37Reason and Elvis have left the building.

00:02:41Although Elvis left the building because he was overfed, reason has left the building

00:02:44because it's been starved to death.

00:02:47So yeah, the reason that your flag is stolen is people don't want to think, they don't

00:02:52want other people to see that other people support that particular candidate.

00:02:56So, I mean, what should you do?

00:02:59I don't know.

00:03:01I mean, there is no philosophical answer to the problem of coercion, right?

00:03:10This is why philosophy works as hard as possible to maintain free speech and to push back against

00:03:17the spread of coercion.

00:03:19I mean, when I was in Hong Kong and the tanks came down the street, I mean, hey, I'll stay

00:03:27there for the blue spray paint.

00:03:31I'll stay there for the loud noises.

00:03:33I'll stay there even when the tear gas canisters are flying around, which actually was in hindsight

00:03:40kind of unwise.

00:03:41One of those could have hit me in the face or the eye, but nonetheless survived.

00:03:45I'll stay for all of that, right?

00:03:47But when the tanks come rolling down the street, I'm not going to reason with tanks, right?

00:03:52So you're asking me, what is the philosophical answer to the problem of coercion?

00:03:58And there is not a philosophical answer to the problem of coercion, which is why philosophy

00:04:02works as hard as possible to prevent the spread of coercion.

00:04:07All right.

00:04:11Yes, good morning for everyone from Scotland, from England, very nice to see you.

00:04:18And let's get to your comments and questions.

00:04:26Yeah, like, wasn't I talking about how the job numbers are all made up and then they

00:04:30had to revive them down, what, 700,000, 800,000?

00:04:33Yeah, nine out of 12, the year is flying by, that's right.

00:04:42All right, let's see here.

00:04:46Let me see if I've got any questions over here.

00:04:49If politics isn't the answer and it clearly isn't, what are we supposed to do?

00:04:53Well, you're supposed to tell parents about peaceful parenting and you're supposed to

00:04:59peacefully parent yourself.

00:05:01I mean, you're supposed to be a peaceful parent yourself.

00:05:03You can't exactly peaceful parent yourself in that sense, but yeah, you are supposed

00:05:08to talk to people about peaceful parenting and peaceful parent yourself.

00:05:17One love above, I appreciate the sentiment behind the support, but if I could refund

00:05:21you that, I would.

00:05:22Please, please, please do not send a dollar.

00:05:25It breaks my heart.

00:05:27It absolutely breaks my heart.

00:05:30If you're down to your last dollar, please don't spend it on a live streamer.

00:05:35No matter how fantastic and ruggedly handsome, don't spend it on that.

00:05:39Please, please save your money.

00:05:41Use it for bus fare to get a job.

00:05:43I'm not kidding.

00:05:44Do not spend your last dollar on a live streamer.

00:05:48Please, please, please save it, get on a bus, and get to work.

00:05:53Do you recommend the play Long Day's Journey Into Night?

00:05:55Any particular version?

00:05:56Yes.

00:05:57I quite like the version with Jason Robards playing the bad brother.

00:06:01So, that's a pretty chilling, but good, but good version.

00:06:06All right.

00:06:08So, we got some questions.

00:06:11Let me get to them.

00:06:12They are good, juicy from Hi-C.

00:06:15They are good, juicy, meaty questions, and we will get in there right away.

00:06:19Let me just boot this up and get on.

00:06:24All right.

00:06:25I will post these questions in, and we will get them on.

00:06:34Oh.

00:06:35All right.

00:06:37Let's see here.

00:06:39That's the first bunch, and where the heck does that go?

00:06:47It seems to have vanished.

00:06:49All right.

00:06:51All right.

00:06:52So, let me just paste these in, and then we'll go from there.

00:06:58And those are the first three, and here are the last seven.

00:07:06All right.

00:07:07The questions are, will libertarianism or anarcho-capitalism inevitably lead to degeneracy?

00:07:15Self-ownership, can it be proven without a deity or divine command?

00:07:19Can you own people?

00:07:20Is there morality without a deity?

00:07:22Is there a secular proof of rational ethics?

00:07:24Can you get an ought from an is?

00:07:27Referring to the Crucible podcast, the debate between Wilson and Smith,

00:07:30is incest between consenting adults a violation of UPB?

00:07:33Does a UPB violation require the use of force to stop it?

00:07:38And last but not least, can we use force to stop an aesthetically unpreferred action?

00:07:43Actually, technically, it's an aesthetically negative action.

00:07:47So, these are great, great questions.

00:07:49I appreciate them, and we will get through them together

00:07:54and answer just about everything that needs to be answered in this or any other universe.

00:08:00I will do it in tough guy voice.

00:08:03I will not do it in tough guy voice.

00:08:05Spoiler, it was not tough guy voice that he used.

00:08:10All right.

00:08:13And let's keep it rapid.

00:08:15Will libertarianism or anarcho-capitalism inevitably lead to degeneracy?

00:08:19Well, the first question is, what is degeneracy?

00:08:22Degeneracy is the corruption that occurs when people are disconnected from reality.

00:08:31When people are disconnected from reality,

00:08:33they can indulge in all kinds of monstrous messes,

00:08:38and that would be degeneracy.

00:08:41So, if somebody has some kind of sexual perversion,

00:08:47generally, in the past, when you needed to have a job

00:08:50and you couldn't get free government money or free government jobs,

00:08:54you would have to keep that degeneracy to yourself,

00:08:58and like some weird sexual perversion.

00:09:01Something that, I mean, just about everyone would agree is a weird sexual perversion.

00:09:04We don't really have to get into details.

00:09:06You just have to keep that to yourself,

00:09:08because if that weird sexual perversion were to come out front and center,

00:09:12people probably wouldn't hire you,

00:09:15because they would be liable for whatever weird sexual energy

00:09:18you brought to the actual workplace,

00:09:21and they would find it off-putting to put you in front of clients,

00:09:24other co-workers might not want to work with you, and so on, right?

00:09:30So, if you're really into sex with pencil sharpeners,

00:09:32you're probably not going to get hired as a teacher.

00:09:35So, there are specific negative financial issues

00:09:42when you are into something completely weird and unpalatable to society as a whole.

00:09:48There are negative consequences.

00:09:51And it's always the question that I have,

00:09:54and this is the question that I grew up with.

00:09:56I was talking about this with someone just this week

00:09:58who was telling me about a family issue,

00:10:00and my question was,

00:10:02how do you afford it?

00:10:06It's one of the most foundational questions of philosophy as a whole,

00:10:10and of morality, and society, and politics.

00:10:13How can you afford it? How do you afford it?

00:10:19So, if the answer as to how you can afford it is,

00:10:24I get government grants, I get SNAP,

00:10:27I get ABD cards, I get a government job where I really can't be fired,

00:10:33I get welfare, I get whatever, free X, Y, and Z from the government,

00:10:38well then, you're disconnected from reality,

00:10:41and you're kind of half a serf owner, right?

00:10:44Because you own people and you take their money through the force of the state.

00:10:50Violence breeds degeneracy,

00:10:53because violence removes you from the need to provide value

00:10:57in order to receive value.

00:10:59And degeneracy happens when that equation is broken,

00:11:03and you no longer need to provide value in order to receive value.

00:11:07You can just use force to take value.

00:11:11Degeneracy occurs when you don't have to negotiate with your fellow human beings,

00:11:15and you just get whatever they want through force.

00:11:20So, female degeneracy, to some degree,

00:11:23and there's male degeneracy too, so I'm not going to ignore that,

00:11:25but female degeneracy occurs to a large degree

00:11:28because the consequences of a lack of degeneracy

00:11:34are borne by other...

00:11:35Sorry, the consequences of degeneracy are borne by other people.

00:11:39So, some woman has three children by three different men

00:11:43and therefore can't really work and is mean to all of her boyfriends

00:11:48and so on, irresponsible.

00:11:50Well, what would prevent that behavior in general

00:11:54is the consequences accruing to either her or her immediate family.

00:11:59So, in the past, of course, parents, in particular fathers,

00:12:02used to have a fairly strict control over the sexual activities

00:12:06of their daughters prior to their daughters getting married.

00:12:10Because if the daughter had a child out of wedlock,

00:12:13a man would not marry her,

00:12:15and the parents would end up having to pay for that child

00:12:18and raise that child, sometimes even as their own.

00:12:22There's lots of stories of the daughter getting pregnant

00:12:27and then the baby being passed off as a whoops late in life,

00:12:31oopsie, of her mother.

00:12:34So, they pass that off and so on.

00:12:37So, in the past, bad decisions about childbirth

00:12:42would be borne by either the woman herself or her immediate family.

00:12:45And, in fact, it would be borne by her immediate family.

00:12:47They could not force other people to pay for the bad choices.

00:12:53So, whatever you subsidize, you get more of.

00:12:55Whatever you tax, you get less of.

00:12:57And right now, and really for the last couple of generations,

00:13:00we have been taxing good decisions and we've been subsidizing bad decisions.

00:13:04And some of those bad decisions are in the realm of degeneracy.

00:13:10So, when the costs of children get turned into an asset,

00:13:15then you are paying people to have children out of wedlock.

00:13:18Of course, you know, one of the things that happened with the welfare state

00:13:21is welfare would not get paid out to the woman if there was a man in the house.

00:13:27So, you are just incentivizing father absence in the household,

00:13:34which is, of course, bad for the children as a whole.

00:13:36What's the old saying?

00:13:37If masculinity was so toxic, then children raised without fathers

00:13:41should be doing way better than children raised with fathers.

00:13:44And they're not.

00:13:45So, spoiler, masculinity is not toxic.

00:13:50So, is it the case that when people are responsible for the consequences

00:13:55of their own bad decisions and they can't force other people

00:13:58to subsidize their own bad decisions or their own weirdness,

00:14:02is it the case that that will expand?

00:14:04Well, that takes such a fundamental lack of understanding of economics,

00:14:08it just kind of takes my breath away.

00:14:10So, when people have to pay for the costs of their own mistakes,

00:14:13your theory is that those mistakes will massively increase.

00:14:17So, when people can force other people to pay for the consequences

00:14:22of their own bad decisions, that's going to lead to less degeneracy.

00:14:27But when you can't force other people to pay for the consequences

00:14:31of your own bad decisions and you bear the costs

00:14:33of your own bad decisions yourself, somehow those bad decisions

00:14:36are going to increase?

00:14:37Come on, man, this isn't even that complicated.

00:14:40All right.

00:14:42Self-ownership, can it be proven without a deity or divine command?

00:14:46Yes.

00:14:47Self-ownership is implicit in the act of having a conversation and debating.

00:14:52So, if you were to say to me, prove self-ownership, I would say,

00:14:55I need you to ask that question without exercising self-ownership.

00:15:00And if you say to me, Steph, you need to prove self-ownership,

00:15:03you're saying that you, Steph, need to use your control over your body,

00:15:06your self-ownership, in order to produce an argument that proves

00:15:11what I have to assume you're capable of in the first place.

00:15:13So, you're making a question to me.

00:15:15So, you're exercising self-ownership to ask me the question.

00:15:18You're asking me the question, not someone else.

00:15:20Therefore, you're asking me to exercise self-ownership

00:15:22in responding to the question.

00:15:25So, self-ownership is axiomatically assumed in asking a question

00:15:30for someone else to prove.

00:15:32So, self-ownership is self-defined by the act of exercising control

00:15:38over yourself, which you have to do in order to ask someone else a question.

00:15:41So, self-ownership is tautological in the act of communication.

00:15:48Can you own people?

00:15:50I cannot own people because you can own yourself.

00:15:56I can make my arm move up.

00:15:58I cannot make your arm move up because my neurological system

00:16:03is wired up to my own muscles.

00:16:04It's not wired up to your muscles.

00:16:06I can no longer control you than I can digest food for you.

00:16:11Or if you say, Steph, I really need to pee.

00:16:13Can you go and pee for me?

00:16:14I would say, not so much.

00:16:17I'm afraid you're going to have to take your waterlogged ass

00:16:20to the bathroom, and if you're a male asking that question,

00:16:23you're probably going to have to sit to pee anyway.

00:16:26So, no, you can't own people because self-ownership is direct control

00:16:30over that thing, direct internal control.

00:16:34And so, you don't have direct control over other people.

00:16:37So, self-ownership and the ownership of other people

00:16:39is not physically possible in the same way.

00:16:41Now, people say, ah, yes, but you can put a gun to someone's head,

00:16:45but that's a violation of the non-aggression principle,

00:16:47and that person has the right of self-defense,

00:16:49and so you can force someone to do something.

00:16:51Yeah, absolutely, but that's like saying nobody can own anything

00:16:54because everyone can steal.

00:16:56So, the reason you have to put a gun to someone's head

00:16:58if you want to force them to do something,

00:17:00and you don't have to put a gun to your own head to force you to do something

00:17:02is you have direct control over yourself,

00:17:04you don't have direct control over other people.

00:17:06So, you cannot own other people in the same way that you would own yourself

00:17:09because you don't have the direct wiring to do that.

00:17:13Is there morality without a deity?

00:17:15Is there a secular proof of rational ethics?

00:17:18The question is not, is there morality without a deity?

00:17:20The question is, is there morality with a deity?

00:17:24Well, I don't know.

00:17:26Because if you're going to say that there is morality with a deity,

00:17:30you're going to have to say, since morality must be universal,

00:17:33that everyone has a direct experience and capacity

00:17:36to communicate with the deity in order to establish morality,

00:17:39which we cannot do.

00:17:41I have never been communicated to by any ghost, goblin, supernatural being,

00:17:46spiritual agent, space alien, deity, you name it.

00:17:51I have never ever once been contacted by any being that is not material.

00:18:00And this is, in fact, the case in general around the world.

00:18:05There are people who claim to be able to do this,

00:18:07but they cannot reproduce it.

00:18:09To claim that you have access to omniscience

00:18:12would be a very easy claim to establish.

00:18:16So if Bob says, I have direct contact to an omniscient being,

00:18:21an all-knowing being,

00:18:23you would simply ask Bob to show that by revealing something

00:18:27that either Bob could not know directly

00:18:29or that is not known by humanity at all.

00:18:35It's really not that complicated.

00:18:37To say that you're in connection or contact with divine omniscience

00:18:41is very easy to establish.

00:18:43You simply ask something that can't be known by humanity

00:18:46but is a knowledge point in the universe.

00:18:51Not that complicated.

00:18:54I mean, omniscience would know where a pirate's buried treasure

00:19:00would be somewhere in the world.

00:19:02Say, oh, okay, well, you have access to omniscience.

00:19:04All you have to do to prove that is take me to some buried treasure.

00:19:08Oh, I can't really do that because it doesn't really work that way.

00:19:11So if you can't even...

00:19:13Or some mathematical theorem that hasn't been proved,

00:19:16you could ask that.

00:19:17What are three equations in physics that have yet to be established?

00:19:21Oh, well, I have access to divine knowledge.

00:19:23I have access to omniscience, so I can give you that answer.

00:19:28What is a unified field theory?

00:19:30Give me a unified field theory.

00:19:33Oh, I can't do that.

00:19:34Well, that is knowledge that is out there somewhere

00:19:38if there's omniscience, and so it's really not that complicated.

00:19:45If I say I can fluidly translate ancient Aramaic to Japanese,

00:19:52well, that's quite a claim, isn't it?

00:19:54So trust but verify.

00:19:56So you say, okay, you have access to all knowledge.

00:19:59You have access to all knowledge.

00:20:01But like, hey, I will pay you...

00:20:04Somebody will pay you a million dollars over the next two years

00:20:10because you have access to omniscience to recreate the Library of Alexandria

00:20:14because that knowledge exists in omniscience, right?

00:20:17So it's simply a matter of proving that you have access to omniscience.

00:20:23Now, no one has ever proven that.

00:20:27People who claim to have access to omniscience,

00:20:30to all knowledge, to all knowledge,

00:20:34have never once been able to prove,

00:20:39even hint at having access to all knowledge.

00:20:47And it doesn't even have to be that complicated.

00:20:50If someone has access to all knowledge, right?

00:20:52Bob says, I have access to all knowledge,

00:20:54then I would walk up to Bob and say,

00:20:56what did I dream about last night?

00:20:58And then he would ask the giant infinite Googleplex of all knowledge

00:21:02and would get an answer.

00:21:05If you claim to have direct access to omniscience,

00:21:08very easy to establish, never is established.

00:21:14So since nobody has ever proven to have any access to omniscience,

00:21:19why would you accept this supposed omniscience

00:21:22as the transmitter of morality?

00:21:26Would it make any sense?

00:21:28And the question is, is it morality because it is true

00:21:32or is it morality because it is ordered?

00:21:34It is so ordered, right?

00:21:37Now, this is an old question back from Socrates, right?

00:21:45Are we pious because we simply obey the gods,

00:21:48even though the gods contradict themselves

00:21:50and make different rules in different circumstances?

00:21:52Are we pious because we obey the gods

00:21:54or are both us and the gods pious

00:21:57because we obey some objective moral standard?

00:22:00If there is an objective moral standard, then it needs to be proven.

00:22:03If you are simply obeying, then you are making a virtue out of obedience.

00:22:08Now, that is very dangerous.

00:22:10To say, I am good because I obey those in authority

00:22:14is a direct path to totalitarianism.

00:22:17I am good because I obey those in authority.

00:22:21So, are the moral laws that the gods give us good

00:22:28because there is some objective moral standard that the gods obey

00:22:33and therefore we should obey?

00:22:35Okay.

00:22:36But if the objective moral standard is something the gods obey,

00:22:40then it is beyond the will of the gods,

00:22:41which means it is a universal moral standard

00:22:43that can be proven in some manner.

00:22:45Because if the universal moral standard can be proven in some manner,

00:22:48then both the gods and us obey that objective moral standard

00:22:52and we don't need the commandment of the gods

00:22:55to obey a moral standard that can be proven objectively.

00:23:01If the moral standard cannot be proven objectively,

00:23:03then we are simply obeying the gods because they have power

00:23:06and therefore we are not obeying morality, we are obeying power.

00:23:09We are obeying their size.

00:23:11Or we sprinkle the magic dust called all good

00:23:14on deities who cannot explain their morals

00:23:17and then say, well, by obeying the deity,

00:23:20which means actually obeying the people who claim to speak for the deity,

00:23:24obeying mere human beings is the ultimate virtue.

00:23:30Now, that is going to lead to degeneracy.

00:23:33Can you get an ought from an is?

00:23:38So, saying you cannot get an ought from an is

00:23:41is getting an ought from an is.

00:23:42You ought not.

00:23:43Right?

00:23:44So, it is a self-detonating statement.

00:23:46You cannot get an ought from an is.

00:23:50So, I ought not say that I can get an ought from an is.

00:23:54So, there is no ought.

00:23:55Therefore, we ought not to say there is.

00:23:57So, you've just created an ought and then we just wrangle from there.

00:24:01Referring to the Crucible podcast,

00:24:02the debate between Wilson and Smith,

00:24:04is incest between consenting adults a violation of UPB?

00:24:07It certainly is.

00:24:09It certainly is.

00:24:10Oh, no.

00:24:11It's consenting adults.

00:24:12No, it's not.

00:24:13It's not consenting adults.

00:24:15Very, very briefly,

00:24:16and I've made this argument twice before,

00:24:18not that you would have heard it,

00:24:19but very briefly,

00:24:20incest is not consensual.

00:24:25We all accept that there is a certain amount of brain damage

00:24:28that eliminates the possibility of consent.

00:24:31If somebody is severely mentally handicapped,

00:24:33has had half of their brain eaten away by meningitis

00:24:36or some horrible illness or injury,

00:24:38they cannot consent.

00:24:39Somebody in a coma cannot consent.

00:24:42Somebody who is blackout drunk cannot consent.

00:24:46There is a certain amount of debilitation in the mind

00:24:49that eliminates the capacity for consent.

00:24:52And incest is such a vile and, of course, anti-healthy,

00:24:56both mentally and physically,

00:24:58sexual practice that it could not have arisen

00:25:01except in situations of extreme trauma and abuse.

00:25:04And because the people who are engaging in incest

00:25:07have had their brains broken by massive extreme trauma and abuse,

00:25:11they cannot consent.

00:25:13We all understand this, right?

00:25:14I've got this show that's been in the wings forever

00:25:17about the Turpin family.

00:25:18The Turpin family raised, like, over a dozen kids,

00:25:22chained to the beds, never really allowed out,

00:25:24fed very badly, beaten, tortured, abused, threatened.

00:25:30Would we say that one of these poor children

00:25:33who was weighing 90 pounds at the age of 19,

00:25:37well, they're 19, they can legally consent to sex.

00:25:39It's like, no, they can't,

00:25:40because they're so damaged and broken by abuse

00:25:43that it will take them a long time to overcome the abuse

00:25:45to the point where they can consent.

00:25:47So, yes, you cannot consent, even as a, quote, adult.

00:25:51There are lots of adults who can't consent.

00:25:53Lots of adults.

00:25:54I mean, mentally damaged adults cannot consent.

00:25:57And so, even the Stockholm Syndrome, right?

00:26:02The Stockholm Syndrome is where, often a woman,

00:26:04could be a man, falls in love with their,

00:26:06falls, quote, in love with their captors.

00:26:08And, well, that's just brain trauma,

00:26:10and that is a terrible attachment disorder

00:26:13based upon PTSD and so on.

00:26:15So, if somebody who's been kidnapped,

00:26:17if a woman who's been kidnapped says,

00:26:19no, no, no, I want to go with my kidnappers,

00:26:22are you still allowed to use force?

00:26:24Yeah, because she's not in her right mind.

00:26:25She can't consent to go

00:26:26because she's been traumatized and brutalized.

00:26:29And I understand, oh, there's a slippery slope,

00:26:31and how do you prove this?

00:26:32Well, that's a different matter.

00:26:33It's a different matter.

00:26:34The question of the principle is,

00:26:35there are people brain damaged to the point

00:26:37where they cannot consent,

00:26:38and we all accept that to one degree or another.

00:26:40And if we had good brain scans to figure out

00:26:43people who practiced incest as adults,

00:26:46it would be the result of massive amounts of trauma,

00:26:49injury, and PTSD, and abuse,

00:26:53and so on to the point where

00:26:56it would not be consensual.

00:27:01All right.

00:27:02Does a UPB violation require the use of force to stop it?

00:27:08I'm not sure what you mean by require.

00:27:11So a UPB violation,

00:27:13let's say somebody runs at you saying,

00:27:16I'm going to stab you with a chest.

00:27:17What do you mean?

00:27:18Does it require the use of force to stop it?

00:27:20Not necessarily.

00:27:21Let's say that you could jump in a car,

00:27:23roll up the windows, and drive away.

00:27:25Okay, well, that's not a UPB.

00:27:27That's not violence.

00:27:28That's just getting away.

00:27:29Let's say you can talk the person down.

00:27:32Let's say you can go inside the house

00:27:35and close the door, and so on.

00:27:37So there's things that you can do

00:27:39that will prevent a UPB violation that are not force.

00:27:43But you're allowed to use force.

00:27:46You're allowed to use force.

00:27:48And for that, you can go to my book, UPB.

00:27:51Universally preferable behavior,

00:27:53a rational proof of secular ethics.

00:27:55Can we use force to stop an aesthetically

00:27:57unpreferred action?

00:27:58So that's an aesthetically negative action.

00:28:00So there's five categories of behavior in morality.

00:28:03Universally preferable behavior,

00:28:05which is respecting property rights, say,

00:28:07or not initiating the use of force.

00:28:09There's aesthetically positive actions.

00:28:11And these are things that are good, but not enforceable.

00:28:14Things such as being polite, being on time,

00:28:16having a sense of diplomacy,

00:28:17giving correct notice to your office,

00:28:20not calling in sick when you're not sick,

00:28:22not lying, and so on.

00:28:23These are aesthetically preferable,

00:28:25but you can't enforce them with violence.

00:28:28So if being on time is preferable,

00:28:32but you can't shoot someone for being late,

00:28:37because they are not imposing their being late on you by force.

00:28:41You have chosen voluntarily to engage in that.

00:28:43It's definitely better if they're on time,

00:28:45but you cannot shoot someone for showing up late

00:28:49because they are not using force to hold you there.

00:28:51You're not chained.

00:28:53You are voluntarily in the relationship, and so on.

00:28:57So you can't use force to stop

00:28:59an aesthetically negative action, such as lying.

00:29:03So if someone says,

00:29:05let's say you're singing a song,

00:29:07and you're sending in an audition tape,

00:29:08and you do a bad job,

00:29:10but your friend says,

00:29:11sounds great to me, sounds fantastic,

00:29:13and then it turns out that you are, in fact,

00:29:15off pitch and off tune and sound bad.

00:29:18Can you shoot your friend? No.

00:29:20Because your friend is not imposing his opinion on you by force.

00:29:24You're voluntarily seeking it out,

00:29:25and he's voluntarily providing it,

00:29:26but he's not imposing anything on you by force.

00:29:28So you can't use force to stop someone from lying.

00:29:31Now, if it's a contract,

00:29:33and then it's a form of theft,

00:29:34and that's sort of a different matter.

00:29:36But just a little white lies,

00:29:37or just, yeah, you look fine in those pants,

00:29:39when you're actually asked,

00:29:40looks like two zeppelins in a condom.

00:29:43Well, then, you've voluntarily chosen

00:29:46to have that person's counsel in your life.

00:29:48They're not imposing anything by force,

00:29:50so you can't use force to stop

00:29:52aesthetically negative actions.

00:29:56So that's it.

00:29:57Oh, look at that.

00:29:58We got through that.

00:29:59Very, very interesting stuff.

00:30:04All right, let's get to your comments about it.

00:30:06I've learned 100 times more from your show than university.

00:30:10Wow, that's interesting.

00:30:12Okay, let's look at this.

00:30:13Average cost of university degree,

00:30:17let's say, USA.

00:30:19Average cost of university degree.

00:30:22Dun-dun-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.

00:30:26I need some.

00:30:28I don't want just each year.

00:30:30Average cost.

00:30:31All right, 93.08 tuition and other fees.

00:30:3520,000.

00:30:36So, let's say, $80,000.

00:30:39$80,000.

00:30:42and you have learned 100 times more than something that costs $80,000.

00:30:49You owe me $8,000,000.

00:30:52I will take that in Bitcoin.

00:30:54Be careful what you say if you've learned a hundred times more from my show than university.

00:31:01Bing bing! That will be $8,000,000.

00:31:03I'll wait.

00:31:05No, I appreciate that. Thank you.

00:31:07Thank you.

00:31:09Tattoos have become normal.

00:31:11Degenerate behavior has been shifting more extreme.

00:31:13Right.

00:31:15So,

00:31:17how have tattoos become normal?

00:31:19Because the cost of tattoos

00:31:21is not borne by individuals.

00:31:26So, one of the reasons why you wouldn't get a tattoo

00:31:28in the past

00:31:30is because

00:31:34you would have fewer hiring opportunities

00:31:36but now

00:31:38you either go on government welfare,

00:31:40you get a government job,

00:31:42or maybe there's some rule that says you can't discriminate

00:31:44against tattooed people and so on.

00:31:46The opposite of degeneracy is

00:31:48the choice

00:31:50to hire or not hire.

00:31:52Prove is a problematic term

00:31:54in ontology.

00:31:56Problematic is a problematic term

00:31:58because nobody knows whatever the hell it means.

00:32:02Doesn't that apply to pets though?

00:32:04Surely you can own them.

00:32:06I hate to say it depends what you mean by own

00:32:08but you can't own them

00:32:10in the same way that you can own yourself.

00:32:18Hey Steph, did I miss the answer to the follow-up question

00:32:20I asked a week ago regarding honesty?

00:32:22I couldn't find the answer.

00:32:24I don't know. I have no idea.

00:32:26People always ask me these things.

00:32:28I've got six million questions whirling around.

00:32:30I've got a whole bunch of projects going on.

00:32:32I've got employees.

00:32:34Why don't you

00:32:38repost the question?

00:32:42All right.

00:32:48Let's see here.

00:32:50Was it immoral for a man and woman to be lovers

00:32:52before they found out they were brother and sister

00:32:54per an episode of Law and Order?

00:32:56Oh, so you mean a brother and sister,

00:32:58a boy and a girl

00:33:00both given up for adoption

00:33:02and in different places they end up meeting

00:33:04by coincidence they become lovers?

00:33:06Well, no. That's just a lack of knowledge, right?

00:33:10I mean, that's like

00:33:12is it theft if I buy something from a garage sale

00:33:14that turns out to be stolen?

00:33:16No, it's not theft.

00:33:18I have no evidence for that, right?

00:33:22In the UK, foreign students pay

00:33:24£40,000 a year.

00:33:26Well, that's what?

00:33:28£85,000?

00:33:30Per year? Oh my gosh.

00:33:32That's got to be $20 million or so.

00:33:38All right.

00:33:40Let's get a question over here

00:33:42on Rumble.

00:33:44If you were a US citizen,

00:33:46would you move to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes?

00:33:50I don't know.

00:33:54I can't possibly give you that kind of advice.

00:33:56That's something to talk about with an accountant.

00:34:00Ahem.

00:34:02A bit of a weird one,

00:34:04but are you your brother's keeper?

00:34:10Well, that's a complex question, of course,

00:34:12because you are your brother's keeper

00:34:14to some degree when you're younger,

00:34:16particularly if you are

00:34:18an older

00:34:20brother.

00:34:22Then you have some responsibility

00:34:24to keep your younger brother

00:34:26safe from bullying

00:34:28and other forms of danger

00:34:30to some degree

00:34:32if you want loyalty

00:34:34to be there for you.

00:34:36So, you are your brother's keeper when you are younger.

00:34:38When you are older, you are not.

00:34:42Any tips for a straight white male

00:34:44dealing with a 90% nursing staff?

00:34:46P.S. from Australia. Loved your live show

00:34:48when you came. Well, thank you.

00:34:50I appreciate that.

00:34:52Yeah.

00:34:54Female nursing staff.

00:34:56Dealing with a 90% female nursing staff.

00:35:00The best way

00:35:02to deal with women in the workplace

00:35:04is to get married yourself.

00:35:06Best way to deal with women in the workplace

00:35:08is to be

00:35:10married yourself.

00:35:16Alright.

00:35:20I'm trying to sell an old car

00:35:22and some joker offered me a trade for tattoos

00:35:24instead of cash. What am I gonna do with tattoos?

00:35:26Well, I mean

00:35:28tattoos are just advertisements for fairly

00:35:30low IQ trauma victims to find each other

00:35:32and replicate their trauma with each other.

00:35:38Alright. August 24th.

00:35:40He posted a question regarding

00:35:42honesty.

00:35:44Okay.

00:35:48Okay, there's stuff about

00:35:50privacy here.

00:35:52Yeah.

00:35:54Honesty, let's see here.

00:35:56Oh, is this like

00:35:58keep some things, you don't have to tell

00:36:00everything to your partner?

00:36:02I'm sorry.

00:36:04I did answer the question.

00:36:06But no, you don't.

00:36:08You know, if you've

00:36:10got a great woman in your life,

00:36:12let's say you had some crazy woman and you had wild sex

00:36:14in your past, right? Are you gonna go into

00:36:16endless detail with your current wonderful

00:36:18wife or girlfriend about all the crazy sex

00:36:20you had in the past? No! Shut up!

00:36:22Shut up!

00:36:26I just, I don't know.

00:36:28I have to be honest.

00:36:30I have to be honest. It's just, I mean, it's half

00:36:32autistic to say, well, honesty is something that

00:36:34programs me regardless of any kind of

00:36:36sensitivity to the feelings of others.

00:36:38Let's say that

00:36:40I don't know,

00:36:42some girl you're dating

00:36:44had a sex tape or something. Here!

00:36:46This is me with another guy. I'm just being

00:36:48honest. I don't know.

00:36:50Let's say, I mean, the sex tape is an

00:36:52extreme example because you probably wouldn't

00:36:54um

00:36:56want to date someone

00:36:58with that kind of stuff, but no, just

00:37:00shut up. Just shut up.

00:37:02Here's a picture

00:37:04of my poop from this morning.

00:37:06I, uh,

00:37:08I got a mountain. I got a devil's

00:37:10mountain. I'm quite excited. Look at that.

00:37:12I'm above the waterline. That's

00:37:14impressive. That means my bowels

00:37:16are more productive than a

00:37:18Miami

00:37:20beach sunscreen

00:37:22factory.

00:37:24It's just like, input output.

00:37:26No. Feel free to shut

00:37:28up.

00:37:30Feel free to shut up.

00:37:32Oh my gosh.

00:37:36There's lots of posts on social media about

00:37:38how devastated women's partners have been about

00:37:40them being honest. Yeah. Shut

00:37:42up.

00:37:46Could biological

00:37:50siblings even be attracted to each other? Doesn't

00:37:52the human body have some protection against this, such

00:37:54as pheromones or something? Yeah, but

00:37:56you can create some

00:37:58scenario where

00:38:00that might happen, right?

00:38:06See,

00:38:08just saying I have to blarp

00:38:10honesty

00:38:12no matter what. Okay, if you're

00:38:14not asked, right, if you're not, is there

00:38:16a lie by omission, right? Is there a lie by

00:38:18omission?

00:38:20Right?

00:38:24If you are walking past

00:38:26some bus shelter

00:38:28with your wonderful wife and

00:38:30in a misbegotten youthful

00:38:32past you had sex with someone in that bus

00:38:34shelter, you say, hey, that bus

00:38:36shelter, I

00:38:38banged a crazy girl in that bus shelter.

00:38:40It happened like this. It happened like this.

00:38:42This was great. This was bad. I got this.

00:38:44I mean, shut up.

00:38:46Shut up.

00:38:52Oh my gosh.

00:38:54Oh my gosh.

00:38:56I don't know.

00:38:58Shut up.

00:39:02You don't want to make decisions.

00:39:04You just want to be programmed. Philosophy

00:39:06is not going to program you.

00:39:08You must do this. You must not do

00:39:10that. You have to be honest without

00:39:12any judgment whatsoever.

00:39:14Why wouldn't you want to share your relationship

00:39:16history with the person you will be marrying?

00:39:26Oh, that is some absolutely

00:39:28truly interstellar

00:39:30levels of not listening at

00:39:32all. That's really

00:39:34amazing. That is an amazing level

00:39:36of not listening.

00:39:38So,

00:39:40did I say don't share anything about your

00:39:42dating history? No, I don't share sexual

00:39:44details about past relationships

00:39:46with new

00:39:48lovers.

00:39:52I mean, if the person

00:39:54says, have you dated in the past? Yes,

00:39:56I dated. I had a six-year relationship. Why did

00:39:58that end? X, Y, and Z. That's fine.

00:40:00There's no problem with that, right? There's no problem

00:40:02with that.

00:40:04Do you

00:40:06have to be honest when the wife asks, does this make

00:40:08me look fat? Well,

00:40:10I think you do have to be honest

00:40:12if your partner is gaining weight.

00:40:14This is something my wife and I talked about before we got

00:40:16married because we are aware that married people

00:40:18sometimes gain weight. And we said,

00:40:20let's just be honest with each other.

00:40:22Now, of course, you can weigh yourself and so on,

00:40:24but if your partner is gaining

00:40:26weight, you should say, I think you might be gaining weight.

00:40:28Let's, you know, check or

00:40:30whatever, right? Yeah, of course.

00:40:32Because we had a deal. And I think

00:40:34in general, if you care about someone,

00:40:36then you should tell them if they're gaining weight.

00:40:38Because it's unhealthy.

00:40:40And if you care about them, then

00:40:42you want them to be around for a long time

00:40:44and to be healthy and happy, right?

00:40:46You can share what you've

00:40:48done without being misleading, but I never said

00:40:50to go into extreme explicit detail.

00:40:56Well, I'm talking about extreme

00:40:58explicit detail. That's what

00:41:00I talked about. The crazy sex I had with my ex.

00:41:02Right? Who was later institutionalized

00:41:04or whatever, right?

00:41:08So, I was talking about

00:41:10explicit sexual detail.

00:41:12I never said you shouldn't talk about

00:41:14prior dating at all.

00:41:16That isn't my question.

00:41:18It's more so, why would you want to hide things,

00:41:20e.g. not tell them you have had a bad

00:41:22dating history generally. But that's not what I'm talking

00:41:24about. So, you can just go off

00:41:26and have this conversation with yourself.

00:41:28Because if you're not going to reference anything that I'm

00:41:30talking about, why would you want to pretend

00:41:32that we're having a conversation? I don't understand that.

00:41:34I don't understand that.

00:41:40So, I guess you can

00:41:42chat with yourself and not reference anything that

00:41:44I'm saying, but I generally

00:41:46have this policy. I don't interrupt people's

00:41:48conversations with themselves. So,

00:41:50if I've made it clear that I'm talking

00:41:52about explicit, my examples are

00:41:54having sex in

00:41:56some skeevy

00:41:58bus shelter and wild sexual positions

00:42:00and things you did in the past

00:42:02and so on.

00:42:04I'm talking about explicit sexual detail

00:42:06and then you're saying,

00:42:08no, but you should be honest about

00:42:10your general dating habits and histories.

00:42:12That's not a conversation that has anything

00:42:14to do with what I'm talking about.

00:42:16You have your conversation with yourself.

00:42:18I'm just not going to pretend that I'm involved.

00:42:26Already got married last month.

00:42:28Still happily.

00:42:30Okay, so then what is the...

00:42:32The gaslighting going on these days

00:42:34is that obese women are attractive and if you

00:42:36disagree, the problem is with you.

00:42:38Well,

00:42:40the media in America

00:42:42and New Zealand, the media

00:42:44takes money from

00:42:46direct-to-consumer ads

00:42:48for medicines.

00:42:50So, why would the media

00:42:52want to tell fat women

00:42:54to lose weight?

00:42:56I mean, the media is generally on the leftist side

00:42:58and unmarried women

00:43:00vote for the left.

00:43:02The media makes a lot of money from pharmaceutical ads

00:43:04and people who are overweight

00:43:06consume a lot more pharmaceuticals

00:43:08and women who are slender

00:43:10are very happy to say that fat women

00:43:12look great so that they have less competition.

00:43:14So, there's just a massive amount

00:43:16of political, financial and sexual marketplace

00:43:18value competition incentives

00:43:20to tell fat women they look great

00:43:22and fat men and so on, right?

00:43:30My experience

00:43:32is that men generally don't like being compared

00:43:34either favorably or unfavorably. Basically,

00:43:36don't want to think about anyone else.

00:43:38Not sure if it's the same for women.

00:43:40So, there was a post on X.

00:43:42Maybe I can find it.

00:43:44Maybe I really don't want to search for

00:43:46penis size on X.

00:43:48So, but there was a post

00:43:50on X and it was about

00:43:52a guy who said that

00:43:54his wife made

00:43:56a comment about his

00:43:58penis size,

00:44:00right?

00:44:02I guess his wife had been with

00:44:04obviously a certain number of women

00:44:06in the past.

00:44:08A certain number of men in the past

00:44:10or maybe women these days. Oh yeah, here we go.

00:44:12Lord knows I actually found it.

00:44:14So, this is a guy who said

00:44:16my wife commented on my penis size and now it's

00:44:18ending our marriage. 34 year old male

00:44:20and 34 year old female married

00:44:22for 6 years. Everything was going

00:44:24great until my wife made a comment about my penis

00:44:26size last year. I didn't care

00:44:28at first but after a while, problems

00:44:30started to occur. First thing

00:44:32is I couldn't get hard at all for her.

00:44:34I could think of other women and get hard for them but not her.

00:44:36She apologized right after her comment but it

00:44:38didn't work. I went to two different therapists

00:44:40this year and we also went to marriage counseling

00:44:42but my thing will just not work

00:44:44with her. It happened after that comment

00:44:46and nothing can solve it. I mentioned

00:44:48divorce this Friday in a discussion and she broke

00:44:50down. To be honest, I'm not sure what's wrong with me. I don't

00:44:52feel resentment or anger thinking

00:44:54about her comment. There should be nothing

00:44:56wrong but my thing refuses to act

00:44:58with her. I could be having a hard on but

00:45:00once she gets close, it shuts down. Therapist

00:45:02didn't work, marriage counseling didn't work

00:45:04and the only option I see is divorce year.

00:45:06Well,

00:45:08what can

00:45:10I tell you?

00:45:12Hey man,

00:45:14she's just being honest.

00:45:16She's gonna be honest

00:45:18and divorced.

00:45:22What can I tell you?

00:45:24No, no, she's being honest.

00:45:32There's a documentary called Unhung Hero

00:45:34Oh, that's funny, about a guy whose proposal

00:45:36got declined at a baseball game because the woman

00:45:38thought his penis was too small.

00:45:40Yeah.

00:45:44She deserves it.

00:45:46Well, no, see, she was being honest.

00:45:48Man, she's just being honest.

00:45:52So, yeah,

00:45:54just shut up.

00:45:56Just shut up.

00:46:00Do I look as

00:46:02great as the

00:46:04day I met

00:46:06my wife?

00:46:08I mean, I'm a little more

00:46:10muscular and I'm a little

00:46:12way less, but

00:46:14in terms of skin elasticity

00:46:16and so on, no.

00:46:18When I met my wife,

00:46:20I was still 10 years away from even

00:46:22needing glasses, right?

00:46:24So,

00:46:26would I want my wife,

00:46:28every time she looks at me and notices me

00:46:30aging, would I want my wife to say

00:46:32you're getting older, you're really looking

00:46:34older, you're getting older, man, you really

00:46:36don't look like you did when I met you.

00:46:38She's being honest.

00:46:40Shut up.

00:46:44Shut up.

00:46:46Oh, my gosh.

00:46:54Uh, so does he have a

00:46:56small one or not? I can't see how it can affect

00:46:58you if it isn't.

00:47:00Oh, come on, man.

00:47:02You don't have to ask that. That's got to be a

00:47:04woman who's asking that question.

00:47:06Do you really think that a man would be upset

00:47:08about a comment about his penis size

00:47:10if it was, it's too big.

00:47:12It's so big, it's not going to

00:47:14bother him.

00:47:16Trust me, I know.

00:47:18It's not going to bother him.

00:47:20Alright.

00:47:22As a slender woman, I used to get

00:47:24death stares from fat women when I ran.

00:47:26They didn't know me. My life

00:47:28had no effect on them. I wondered if

00:47:30they hated to see proof that I wasn't just lucky to be

00:47:32thin. That was usually what women

00:47:34said. No, actually, it takes effort, and anyone can

00:47:36do it. Yeah. What do you mean

00:47:38my life had no effect on them? Of course

00:47:40your life has an effect on them.

00:47:44So, and this is a line from

00:47:46Kevin Samuels, but

00:47:48a woman shows a

00:47:50man what she thinks he's worth

00:47:52by her appearance.

00:47:54A woman shows a man what

00:47:56she thinks he's worth by her appearance.

00:47:58So, if a

00:48:00woman

00:48:02works very hard on her appearance,

00:48:04looks great,

00:48:06then she's saying to you,

00:48:08I think you're worth

00:48:10a lot. I mean, one of the reasons I

00:48:12exercise a lot, and

00:48:14watch my weight, and so on, and

00:48:16I barely ever even watch

00:48:18a TV show without doing

00:48:20leg lifts and sit-ups.

00:48:22You know, like 150 sit-ups.

00:48:24Because

00:48:26I want my wife to know how much I

00:48:28value her, and as a

00:48:30monopoly provider of romantic

00:48:32attraction to my wife, I want to look as good as possible.

00:48:34I mean, there's a certain amount of aging out that's gonna happen,

00:48:36but I'll fight it every step of the way.

00:48:38Every step of the way.

00:48:40Because, whereas if

00:48:42a woman, or a man,

00:48:44gets fat and unattractive over the course

00:48:46of the marriage, they're saying, I don't really value

00:48:48or treasure you that much. I don't care about you that much.

00:48:50It's not just laziness.

00:48:52It's

00:48:54the denigration of the other.

00:48:56It's hostility towards the other.

00:48:58So,

00:49:00your life absolutely has an effect on them.

00:49:02Because

00:49:04you are taking away

00:49:06what do men want? Men generally

00:49:08want slender women.

00:49:10It's gonna be a bit of aging out, and that's

00:49:12fine, and you know, pregnancy, I get all of that.

00:49:14But

00:49:16men want slender women.

00:49:18And so, if a woman is

00:49:20not slender, she's saying, I don't

00:49:22care what men want. Doesn't matter to me.

00:49:24I don't care what men want. I don't care what you want.

00:49:26I don't care what you prefer.

00:49:28It's all about me and my brownies.

00:49:32I don't care. I don't care what you want.

00:49:34So, it is a signal, in general,

00:49:36again, barring medical issues and so on,

00:49:38but it's a signal in general that the woman

00:49:40is not gonna care about what you want.

00:49:42It's a signal of selfishness.

00:49:52Steph, I'm not the person asking, but the original

00:49:54question they asked about honesty was born from the call

00:49:56where you told the woman not to disclose her bad dating

00:49:58history, chiming in, as I find

00:50:00this interesting, still not settled on this, but

00:50:02I have realized there's a line which signals a lack

00:50:04of boundaries.

00:50:06So,

00:50:08you can say

00:50:10you had

00:50:12a negative dating history, and look,

00:50:14every 57

00:50:16it was a 57-year-old woman, right?

00:50:18So, every 57-year-old

00:50:20woman who's single and dating

00:50:22has a bad dating history. That's

00:50:24understood unless she just

00:50:26bailed out of a nunnery, in which case

00:50:28she probably had a pretty bad childhood,

00:50:30but every

00:50:32woman who's in her 50s

00:50:34and single has a bad

00:50:36dating history, or

00:50:38they have no dating history, in which case

00:50:40they had massive amounts of trauma as

00:50:42a child.

00:50:44So, that's

00:50:46understood.

00:50:48That's understood.

00:50:50So, if I shave my head,

00:50:52come on a show, and you're watching

00:50:54the video, and I spend half an hour telling

00:50:56you that I've shaved my head,

00:50:58isn't that kind of pointless?

00:51:00You can see,

00:51:02I've shaved my head, right?

00:51:04So, a

00:51:06woman who's 57, of course she

00:51:08has a bad dating history. Of course she does,

00:51:10because she's 57 and single.

00:51:14So, that's understood.

00:51:16Now, she can say, yeah, I was in a relationship

00:51:18for this long, and it broke up, and that's fine,

00:51:20but in terms of like, well, he

00:51:22did this to me, and then this happened, and then the

00:51:24other thing happened, and then he ran out my credit card

00:51:26debt, and there's like all of these

00:51:28horrifying details, no!

00:51:30Shut up!

00:51:32Shut up!

00:51:34Because if you've learned from them,

00:51:36and you won't

00:51:38do it again, right? You've learned the red flags,

00:51:40you've learned, you've hit your maturity

00:51:42bandwagon, your maturity stride,

00:51:44right? And so you've learned, then it's not

00:51:46relevant to the current relationship.

00:51:48If you haven't learned,

00:51:50then you shouldn't be dating, because you're just setting yourself up

00:51:52for more disaster.

00:52:00Alright. She was

00:52:0235. Okay, so a woman who's 35,

00:52:04who wants to be in relationships,

00:52:06has been dating for close to

00:52:0820 years, and has never found a man

00:52:10to commit to her, and has never found

00:52:12a man that she wants to commit to, and wants to

00:52:14commit to her. So she has

00:52:16failed. Look,

00:52:18let's be frank, all relationship breakups

00:52:20are catastrophic failures.

00:52:22All of them. Every

00:52:24single one of them are catastrophic failures,

00:52:26because everyone goes into

00:52:28a romantic relationship with the hopes

00:52:30of it lasting a lifetime and producing children.

00:52:32Everyone

00:52:34goes into a romantic relationship, deep down,

00:52:36admit it or not, right down to the base of their spine,

00:52:38hoping it's going to last forever, be a perfect love

00:52:40that produces a family, children, and a legacy.

00:52:42Somebody to ride

00:52:44with you in the graying, collapsing horse

00:52:46into old age.

00:52:48Somebody to cry

00:52:50at your funeral, when they

00:52:52drop you into the yawning gap of earth,

00:52:54known as the six feet dirt nap of eternity.

00:52:56Everybody goes into a relationship

00:52:58with the goal of it

00:53:00being a perfect love that lasts forever, produces

00:53:02a children and family, and gives you care, comfort,

00:53:04and companionship into your old age. Every

00:53:06single person.

00:53:08It's not like

00:53:10a job that you take in order to get another

00:53:12job in order to improve your career. Everybody

00:53:14goes into a relationship with

00:53:16the goal of a permanent pair bond.

00:53:18Therefore, every breakup

00:53:20is a catastrophic failure.

00:53:22It breaks

00:53:24your heart. It screws up with your

00:53:26sense of reality. It screws up with your trust

00:53:28in your own judgment. It takes

00:53:30a long time to repair, because

00:53:32a breakup is perceived by the unconscious

00:53:34as the death of someone,

00:53:36or a massive betrayal.

00:53:38So,

00:53:40all relationships

00:53:42that breakup

00:53:44that are romantic, and even

00:53:46friendships to some degree, but all relationships,

00:53:48all romantic relationships that breakup

00:53:50are catastrophic failures.

00:53:52And it doesn't matter,

00:53:54really, how long they are.

00:53:56If you

00:53:58go out with a girl

00:54:00for two months, and you're

00:54:02thrilled and happy and think

00:54:04it's going to last forever, and then it comes

00:54:06to a horrible, malevolent, violent

00:54:08end after two months,

00:54:10then you

00:54:12are worse than clueless. You are

00:54:14walking into the

00:54:16dick pencil sharpener

00:54:18of being blind to red flags.

00:54:20Balls and a blender,

00:54:22right? So, the shorter

00:54:24the relationship is, the more your judgment

00:54:26is impaired. At least if you last

00:54:28for a year or two, you could make it that long,

00:54:30and then there's a breakup then.

00:54:32So, the amount of trauma is the same.

00:54:34It just gets compressed.

00:54:36Right? The amount of

00:54:38matter in the old black

00:54:40hole is the same as the earth. The earth

00:54:42is like a teaspoon of black hole material. It's the same

00:54:44material. It's just compressed. It's the same trauma.

00:54:46It's just compressed. So, if a woman's

00:54:4835,

00:54:50she's failed for close to 20 years

00:54:52in every

00:54:54single one of her relationships.

00:54:56So, we know that. We understand that.

00:54:58Why would you need to,

00:55:00well, this happened, and then this happened?

00:55:02No! Shut up! It's understood.

00:55:04It's known. It's implicit.

00:55:06If you've dealt with it, it's in the past.

00:55:08Move on. If you haven't dealt with it, then don't date

00:55:10until you have.

00:55:16Sigh.

00:55:20But Steph, it's just a

00:55:22situationship. I'm strong. I won't be affected by

00:55:24Chad.

00:55:26A situationship

00:55:28is a woman

00:55:30who is trying to

00:55:32get a man to commit to her, but she's

00:55:34already given him sex.

00:55:38A situationship is when

00:55:40a woman hopes that

00:55:42sexual access will lead to pair bonding.

00:55:50She was 35 and had a short time to get pregnant,

00:55:52but you told her to take it to the grave, which

00:55:54is fundamentally dishonest. I would also bring

00:55:56guilt upon her, and take it to the grave has very

00:55:58negative consequences.

00:56:00So you understand that's not an argument.

00:56:02You're just making sounds, right? You are, as my

00:56:04daughter would say, yapping.

00:56:06Yeah. The absolute

00:56:08details of

00:56:10already processed brutalities in

00:56:12prior relationships, shut up about it.

00:56:14Have some

00:56:16discretion.

00:56:18You don't have to

00:56:20tell everyone everything.

00:56:22You don't have to

00:56:24tell everyone everything.

00:56:26Have some discretion.

00:56:28Have some privacy.

00:56:30Have some care and concern for your

00:56:32partner.

00:56:36So, in terms of

00:56:38take it to the grave, yeah,

00:56:40I can't remember the details, but if she

00:56:42has some massive dysfunction

00:56:44in a prior relationship, and

00:56:46she's dealt with it, and she's done the therapy, she's done the

00:56:48self-work, then shut up about it. Yep. Absolutely.

00:56:50No problem with that. No problem at all

00:56:52with that.

00:56:54It's fundamentally

00:56:56dishonest. Oh, you put the word fundamentally in.

00:56:58Well, that's proof. It's not just

00:57:00dishonest. It's fundamentally dishonest.

00:57:02But also bring guilt upon her,

00:57:04as take it to the grave has very negative

00:57:06consequences.

00:57:08So, this is in the realm

00:57:10of a bullshit Egyptian

00:57:12voodoo curse, right?

00:57:14Oh, you can't disturb that mummy's tomb.

00:57:16You'll be cursed, and you'll end up with

00:57:18a career like Brendan Fraser.

00:57:20Ooh, there's a detailed layer

00:57:22of analogies.

00:57:24No, if you don't tell

00:57:26everyone you're dating

00:57:28all of the details of sexuality

00:57:30and trauma and problems and betrayals

00:57:32in your past relationships,

00:57:34you're going to be cursed with

00:57:36guilt.

00:57:38...

00:57:40Okay,

00:57:42but you're just saying something.

00:57:44You're just saying something.

00:57:46If you've dealt with your past

00:57:48relationships, they won't affect

00:57:50your current relationship,

00:57:52right? If you've dealt

00:57:54with your past relationships,

00:57:56they won't affect your current relationship,

00:57:58and therefore the information is not of value

00:58:00or of use to the other person.

00:58:02If you haven't dealt with your past relationships,

00:58:04and I think she had gone to therapy and dealt with

00:58:06a bunch of stuff, then you need to deal

00:58:08with those past relationships.

00:58:10150 sit-ups is pretty good.

00:58:12Swole philosophy.

00:58:14Well, okay, I'll be honest, right?

00:58:16It's 50 straight and

00:58:18then 50 obliques.

00:58:22I saw some of that

00:58:24Unhung Hero documentary. I can't believe a dude

00:58:26had to make a documentary to find out size matters.

00:58:28Greater surface

00:58:30area means more stimulation. Obviously, there is

00:58:32such a thing as being too big, but come on!

00:58:36All right.

00:58:38Um,

00:58:40I understand this intellectually, but I'm struggling to reconcile

00:58:42with the best predictor. The best

00:58:44indicator for future behavior is relevant.

00:58:46It's past and present behavior.

00:58:50Right.

00:58:54But self-knowledge changes that.

00:58:56Philosophy is about changing things.

00:59:06All right.

00:59:08What if you

00:59:10have learned about some red flags,

00:59:12done some work on yourself, but still have

00:59:14a nagging feeling that you're missing a trick?

00:59:16You now have no

00:59:18or some idea

00:59:20of what you want or need.

00:59:22I don't know what that means.

00:59:26I don't know what that means.

00:59:28What if she has an STD?

00:59:30Okay, what did I just say?

00:59:32Okay, maybe

00:59:34you typed this before. So, of course,

00:59:36if it's relevant information, right?

00:59:40If it's relevant information,

00:59:42if she currently has an STD

00:59:44that can be transmitted to the partner,

00:59:46then, yeah,

00:59:48that is, of course, important.

00:59:50If she had

00:59:52some prior STD that has

00:59:54no lasting health effects

00:59:56and was cured many years ago,

00:59:58you can shut up, because it's not

01:00:00going to affect your current

01:00:02partner, assuming you've dealt with all of that, right?

01:00:06Do mothers no longer warn their daughters

01:00:08about men and the old adage,

01:00:10you can get the milk for free, about marriage first,

01:00:12physical intimacy after, for the women in chat?

01:00:16Do you warn your daughters? Well, I mean, there's a race

01:00:18to the bottom. I mean, it's almost literally

01:00:20if you use the British phrase

01:00:22in bottom, right? So, yeah,

01:00:24there's kind of a race to the bottom.

01:00:26So, when women

01:00:28kind of had a cartel, right?

01:00:30When women kind of had a cartel

01:00:32on sexual access and women didn't break the line,

01:00:34they held the line, right? They weren't scabbed,

01:00:36so to speak, then

01:00:38women could demand commitment before sex,

01:00:40but the problem is, when so many women

01:00:42are giving sex without commitment,

01:00:44it gets tough.

01:00:46It gets tough.

01:00:48How does a woman get a date

01:00:50if

01:00:52all the other women are handing out sex like candy?

01:00:54It's very, very tough.

01:01:00All right.

01:01:02I'd say about three quarters of the way there

01:01:04with the honesty conversation. If the person hasn't

01:01:06said those things, then it'll show up in the present,

01:01:08and if that person chooses to share, great.

01:01:10If not, you decide what to do with what is

01:01:12a red flag. I don't know what that means.

01:01:14All right.

01:01:20The first question.

01:01:22What did you say here?

01:01:24What is the first question

01:01:26from this person?

01:01:36Thank you

01:01:38for your work.

01:01:40I've come across a book titled The Iron Curtain Over America.

01:01:42It's about the alliance with, actually,

01:01:44the bad guys, FDR, Churchill, Stalin created wartime

01:01:46propaganda thoughts.

01:01:48They did. I don't have any particular

01:01:50thoughts. I did read a book

01:01:52called Churchill and the

01:01:54Unnecessary War by Buchanan.

01:01:56I had it somewhere here.

01:01:58Oh, you know what? Actually, my camera's sitting on it right now.

01:02:00I've still got all of

01:02:02my post-it notes in the book.

01:02:04Yes. World War II.

01:02:06You know, the interesting

01:02:08thing, just about history in general,

01:02:10not about World War II in particular,

01:02:12but

01:02:18when you see history

01:02:20being rewritten and lied about,

01:02:22even with video evidence in the present,

01:02:24you can understand that

01:02:26there's nothing to believe in history.

01:02:28There's nothing to believe in history.

01:02:30Because, I mean,

01:02:32I've mentioned this before, the fine people hoax,

01:02:34right, that Trump at Charlottesville

01:02:36said that white supremacists

01:02:38and neo-Nazis were very fine people,

01:02:40were fine people. It's not true.

01:02:42He said they should be condemned utterly.

01:02:44He was talking about other people who weren't those

01:02:46people on both sides at the debate.

01:02:48So the fact that

01:02:50you can literally beam the truth into

01:02:52somebody's ass in about

01:02:54a second and this lie persists

01:02:58just tells you that even with video evidence,

01:03:00even with being able to prove to somebody

01:03:02that video evidence, in about 10 seconds,

01:03:04lies persist.

01:03:06Right?

01:03:08Lies persist.

01:03:16Let's see here.

01:03:18If being naive means that

01:03:20I appreciate intelligent, competent men

01:03:22who makes over six figures, I'll take average or less than average

01:03:24every day, any day.

01:03:26I don't know what that means, but maybe you're in a conversation

01:03:28with somebody else.

01:03:3098% of women chasing 2%

01:03:32of men. Math

01:03:34does not work. Yeah. I mean, the best way to

01:03:36make people miserable is to tell them to never settle.

01:03:40I mean, the best way to make people

01:03:42miserable is to tell them to never settle.

01:03:44You hold up the absolute ideal.

01:03:46I should not be live streaming

01:03:48because I have fewer

01:03:50people on my live stream than Mr. Beast.

01:03:52Yes, but I get to work

01:03:54with some infinitely better people, so

01:03:56I'll take that, right?

01:03:58So, everyone tells you not to settle.

01:04:00And it appeals to your vanity.

01:04:02Pride and vanity

01:04:04is a desperately dangerous sin.

01:04:06Right?

01:04:08And so telling you not to settle

01:04:10is provoking your vanity to the point

01:04:12where you don't end up happy.

01:04:16Never settle. You deserve the best.

01:04:18No, you don't.

01:04:20Neither do I.

01:04:22What does that mean?

01:04:24Let's just take this

01:04:26at the movie industry, right?

01:04:28Most of the highest paid actors get, what,

01:04:30like $20 million?

01:04:32A movie, right?

01:04:34So then you say to every actor,

01:04:36you deserve the best.

01:04:38You should never ever appear in a movie

01:04:40unless you're being paid $20 million.

01:04:42Even if you're an extra somewhere in the backdrop,

01:04:44you deserve the best.

01:04:48Even if you're the guy who says,

01:04:50Mr. Swaggart, you deserve $20 million.

01:04:54You deserve the best.

01:04:56Everybody should be a leading man or woman

01:04:58and get paid $20 million

01:05:00and a percent of the gross.

01:05:02You should be like Jack Nicholson

01:05:04and the Michael Keaton Batman

01:05:06and earn $5 million for a couple of days' work.

01:05:10Right?

01:05:12It's funny.

01:05:14There would be no movies if everybody

01:05:16had to get paid $20 million.

01:05:18The industry would not exist.

01:05:20Everybody

01:05:22who's watching the Rolling Stones perform

01:05:24deserves to be Mick Jagger

01:05:26and should

01:05:28take the microphone and sing

01:05:30Angie instead.

01:05:32There's no concert

01:05:34if there's no Mick Jagger, right?

01:05:36Man's got a narrow waist

01:05:38and Kevin Bacon, he looks like a wasp.

01:05:40Is he a wasp? Probably.

01:05:42Anyway, so,

01:05:44you deserve the best.

01:05:46No, you don't.

01:05:48That's just vanity.

01:05:50You deserve what you earn.

01:05:52You deserve

01:05:54the best.

01:05:56You deserve what you earn.

01:05:58You deserve what you negotiate.

01:06:00You deserve whatever the fuck people are willing to give you.

01:06:02That's what you deserve.

01:06:04You deserve.

01:06:06I deserve more

01:06:08people watching my livestream.

01:06:10No, I don't.

01:06:12I deserve exactly the people who choose

01:06:14to watch my livestream.

01:06:16Right?

01:06:18I deserve more donations.

01:06:20I'll ask. Freedomain.com

01:06:22slash donate. Really would appreciate it.

01:06:24I mean, as a baby

01:06:26and as a toddler, you deserve your parents'

01:06:28love, care, and attention.

01:06:30Absolutely.

01:06:32Absolutely.

01:06:36But as an adult,

01:06:38you deserve nothing.

01:06:40Deserve is

01:06:42a way of raising entitlement.

01:06:44Entitlement raises exploitation.

01:06:46And entitlement is a prequel

01:06:48to rage.

01:06:50Right? Being entitled

01:06:52is a prequel to rage.

01:06:54You deserve the best. Well, you keep going

01:06:56through life without getting the best, and you get angry.

01:07:00History is a set of lies

01:07:02that people have agreed upon, says Napoleon.

01:07:04I mean, that's a catchy phrase.

01:07:06But history is a set of lies

01:07:08inflicted by people in power in order to maintain

01:07:10power.

01:07:14Buchanan got a lot of heat for that great book.

01:07:16I could mention another author, a British guy, who went

01:07:18above and beyond him, but I'll abstain.

01:07:20Yes, I think I have some idea

01:07:22of whom you speak.

01:07:24Not the songwriter.

01:07:30All right.

01:07:32No, you deserve.

01:07:34You deserve the best.

01:07:36I mean, it gives you a flicker

01:07:38of vanity and a flicker of happiness,

01:07:40a little bit of dopamine, and then you set your life waiting

01:07:42for the best to be delivered to you.

01:07:46You deserve a million dollars of Amazon

01:07:48packages left on your doorstep.

01:07:50You don't

01:07:52deserve any of that.

01:07:54Oh, my gosh.

01:07:56Paid for renewing my monthly sub last night, not relying on coins.

01:07:58Can tip through the website. Thank you.

01:08:00You deserve the best. Is that a

01:08:02communist way of thinking?

01:08:04Well, you deserve the best

01:08:06to ease into people's sorrow about their early childhood.

01:08:08You deserve the best from your parents.

01:08:10Absolutely, you deserve their love, care, attention.

01:08:12You deserve the best from your parents.

01:08:14For sure. Absolutely.

01:08:16And I'm really, really sorry that you didn't get it,

01:08:18but you can't use that as a giant chain

01:08:20to enslave others in the adult.

01:08:22So what happens?

01:08:24You deserve the best makes you arrogant.

01:08:30Right.

01:08:32You deserve the best

01:08:34makes you arrogant.

01:08:38You deserve first class.

01:08:40What do you mean I have to sit and coach?

01:08:42It makes you arrogant, makes you unpleasant.

01:08:44You deserve the best means you end up with the worst.

01:08:46I mean, guaranteed.

01:08:48Guaranteed. You deserve the best means

01:08:50you end up at the worst because you become

01:08:52arrogant and therefore quality people don't want to

01:08:54deal with you because you don't negotiate.

01:08:56All you come is with demands

01:08:58and entitlement.

01:09:00It's the old thing that

01:09:02when you say to a woman

01:09:04what do you bring to?

01:09:06Well, here's what I have to bring to the table.

01:09:08Right? 666 or something.

01:09:10Here's what I have to bring to the table.

01:09:12That's the reason why that's demonic.

01:09:14And you say, what do you bring to the table?

01:09:16I am the table.

01:09:18It's like, eh.

01:09:20Right.

01:09:24If you're waiting at home for a marriage proposal,

01:09:26your chances are couriers and missionaries.

01:09:28Good luck with that.

01:09:30Right. That's funny.

01:09:34You deserve the best

01:09:36is just a depopulation.

01:09:38Seriously, it's a depopulation

01:09:40political power agenda.

01:09:42You deserve the best means that women stay single

01:09:44and therefore they'll vote

01:09:46for the government. Right? You know that

01:09:48meme of the, I think it's some Japanese

01:09:50or Korean cartoon and there's a butterfly

01:09:52and a guy looks kind of wondering.

01:09:54Right? And it's like,

01:09:56is it the one in China?

01:09:58Is this a butterfly? Is this food?

01:10:00And it's like

01:10:02single women.

01:10:04Is this government?

01:10:06Is this boyfriend? Is this a boyfriend?

01:10:08Is this a husband? It's the government.

01:10:14Right. Married to the state.

01:10:16You deserve the best

01:10:18is just a way of making people unmarriable

01:10:20so they'll vote for bigger government,

01:10:22stay single, stay lonely, stay bitter

01:10:24and be easily weaponized.

01:10:26Because when you get people to make terrible

01:10:28decisions, they end up with a lot of

01:10:30anger that's easy to weaponize against

01:10:32your enemies.

01:10:38Saw another podcast

01:10:40about advertising and how one strategy

01:10:42is flattery. You're the best, therefore drink Coke.

01:10:44Yeah. Well, they make it a status thing.

01:10:46Have you ever seen that

01:10:48the lemon monologue?

01:10:50Have you ever seen this?

01:10:52It's pretty wild.

01:10:58I don't know if

01:11:06this is

01:11:08the monologue.

01:11:12When life hands you lemons, make lemonade?

01:11:14No.

01:11:16First.

01:11:18You roll out a multimedia campaign

01:11:20to convince people lemons are incredibly scarce,

01:11:22which only works if you stockpile lemons,

01:11:24control the supply.

01:11:26Then a media blitz.

01:11:28Lemon is the only way to say

01:11:30I love you, the must-have accessory for

01:11:32engagements or anniversaries.

01:11:34Roses are out, lemons are in.

01:11:36Billboards that say she won't have sex with you

01:11:38unless you got lemons.

01:11:40You cut the beers in on it. Limited edition

01:11:42lemon bracelets. Yellow diamonds

01:11:44called lemon drops.

01:11:46You get Apple to call

01:11:48their new operating system OS

01:11:50LEMON. A little accent over the O.

01:11:52You charge 40% more for

01:11:54organic lemons, 50%

01:11:56more for conflict-free lemons.

01:11:58You pack the capital

01:12:00with lemon lobbyists. You get a Kardashian

01:12:02to suck a lemon wedge in a leaked sex tape.

01:12:04Timothee Chalamet wears

01:12:06lemon shoes at Cannes. Get a hashtag

01:12:08campaign. Something isn't cool or

01:12:10tight or awesome. No. It's lemon.

01:12:12Did you see that movie?

01:12:14Did you see that concept? It was effing lemon.

01:12:16Billie Eilish, OMG.

01:12:18Hashtag lemon.

01:12:20You get Dr. Oz to recommend four lemons

01:12:22a day and a lemon suppository supplement to get

01:12:24rid of toxins, because there's nothing scarier than

01:12:26toxins. Then you patent

01:12:28the seeds. You write a line of genetic code

01:12:30that makes a lemon look like just a little bit more like

01:12:32tits. And then you get a gene patent

01:12:34for the tit lemon DNA sequence. You

01:12:36cross-pollinate. You get those seeds circulating

01:12:38in the wild. And then you sue the farmer for copyright

01:12:40infringement when that genetic code shows up

01:12:42in their land. Sit back.

01:12:44Rake in the millions. And then,

01:12:46when you're done,

01:12:48and you've sold your lempire for

01:12:50a few billion dollars, then,

01:12:52and only then, you make

01:12:54some fucking lemonade.

01:13:00I mean, that's how it works.

01:13:02And, I mean, a fool and his money are soon parted.

01:13:04If you think that you buy that beer

01:13:06and you get abs and

01:13:08a hot model by a pool, well,

01:13:10take the beer, right?

01:13:18Alright, um, somebody said,

01:13:20Sorry, Steph, I meant in relation to dating. When looking to marry,

01:13:22I tend to overthink things, then not act.

01:13:24Now I have no clue what I should be looking for.

01:13:26I do, but not how to prioritize

01:13:28those things and potential dates pass me by.

01:13:30Okay, so you can wait for perfection

01:13:32and stay single. Or you can, at some

01:13:34point, you're going to have to roll the dice.

01:13:36Steph, I have ex-girlfriends that have me

01:13:38blocked, but often spy on my social media.

01:13:40Why do you think they might be doing that?

01:13:42Well, they want to find out if you or they were at fault.

01:13:44They want to find out if you or they

01:13:46were at fault.

01:13:50Right, so, if you end up

01:13:52happy and wonderful and great and then they

01:13:54will feel at fault, well, so what they're doing

01:13:56is making sure you're still single so they can

01:13:58convince themselves they didn't make a mistake.

01:14:00Right, make sense?

01:14:08Alright.

01:14:10I can see why it's

01:14:12tough for women to think about providing value

01:14:14because when they're young they have value just by existing.

01:14:16They have potential to have babies.

01:14:18No, I don't think that's quite

01:14:20true. Women don't have value just for existing.

01:14:22Women have value

01:14:24when they're young

01:14:26by being physically attractive

01:14:28and the more physically attractive they are,

01:14:30the more slender and toned

01:14:32and the hair is great and they, you know,

01:14:34work on their outfits and they, whatever.

01:14:36Right, then they

01:14:38do better.

01:14:40It's not just being young. You also have to be young

01:14:42and attractive.

01:14:48What is the best I can get? Not happy with the choices?

01:14:50Can you do more to increase your value? Yeah.

01:14:52If you're not happy with your salary, then work to increase

01:14:54value and then

01:14:56communicate the increase in value and then

01:14:58go and get another job offer to

01:15:00confirm all of that and yeah, just, I mean,

01:15:02just complain, right?

01:15:06Alright.

01:15:12Why am I so insecure

01:15:14when my girlfriend is talking to a single man?

01:15:16My parents' divorce had a major impact on me in 1974.

01:15:18Is this a major reason why

01:15:20or is it my personal deficiency?

01:15:22I'm...

01:15:24No,

01:15:26it wouldn't be your parents' divorce.

01:15:28Is your girlfriend fully

01:15:30committed to you?

01:15:33With your wife, you said

01:15:35she's the best you could get or something along those lines.

01:15:37However, you just mentioned some people need to roll the dice.

01:15:39Is this contradictory?

01:15:41Well, no. I mean, my wife could have

01:15:43been some absolutely

01:15:45compelling shapeshifter and could have

01:15:47just told me everything I wanted to hear

01:15:49and then totally turned on me after marriage.

01:15:51Right?

01:15:53I mean,

01:15:55there is no risk-free life,

01:15:57people.

01:15:59And there is no risk greater

01:16:01than regret.

01:16:05There is no risk greater than regret.

01:16:07Because regret is inevitable.

01:16:09Taking risks is the only chance

01:16:11to avoid suffering.

01:16:13Now, in the short run, avoiding risks

01:16:15is going to make you feel better, but it's predicated

01:16:17on the belief on immortality that is a false lie.

01:16:19Sorry, a complete lie.

01:16:21Taking risks

01:16:23is the only way

01:16:25to have a chance

01:16:27to not suffer in life.

01:16:32I mean,

01:16:34I can't even tell you how much I would have

01:16:36regretted not doing this show.

01:16:38Right? So, like, close to 20 years ago,

01:16:40I started this show

01:16:42and I had a good life

01:16:44as a software executive and entrepreneur.

01:16:46I traveled all over the place, stayed in five-star hotels,

01:16:48had a pretty great life.

01:16:52I loved working in tech

01:16:54and it was pretty good.

01:16:56So,

01:16:58I rolled the dice

01:17:00and started this.

01:17:02Took a massive pay cut.

01:17:04Well, two massive pay cuts over the course of my life, right?

01:17:06Leaving the software executive field

01:17:08and deplatforming.

01:17:10Which I regret neither.

01:17:17So, if I had stayed in the software field,

01:17:19I would be...

01:17:21I mean, I would have been very successful,

01:17:23I would have made a lot of money in that way,

01:17:25and

01:17:27I would have

01:17:29all of this capacity

01:17:31that I have would have been

01:17:33unexpressed in the world.

01:17:35And deep down, I know

01:17:37that the world needs a philosopher

01:17:39a hell of a lot more than it needs another software entrepreneur.

01:17:43I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

01:17:49The world needs a philosopher,

01:17:51a really good philosopher,

01:17:53more than it needs another actor

01:17:55or another playwright or another director

01:17:57or another novelist

01:17:59or another academic

01:18:01or another software entrepreneur

01:18:03or all the things that I had some pretty good success with

01:18:05before I did this.

01:18:09What is more needed?

01:18:11Now, of course,

01:18:13I was skeptical of how good I could be

01:18:15because the idea

01:18:17that

01:18:19the golden god fingertip

01:18:21of philosophy would have landed on my random skull

01:18:23is like

01:18:25expecting to win a lottery

01:18:27where the numbers

01:18:29come up once every thousand years.

01:18:33My skepticism

01:18:35as to my capacities

01:18:37was extraordinarily high

01:18:39and is beginning to fall now.

01:18:45I'm beginning to accept

01:18:47how good I am.

01:18:49After 42 years

01:18:51in the field,

01:18:53I can look back and say,

01:18:55yeah, I've solved the major problems

01:18:57and I've advanced the field of philosophy enormously

01:18:59and

01:19:01tens of millions

01:19:03of people's lives have been vastly

01:19:05improved by this work that we're all doing

01:19:07together in the realm of philosophy.

01:19:11I've had

01:19:13the most general and positive impact

01:19:15of any philosopher because I focus on that

01:19:17which can be actioned, that which can be done.

01:19:19Quality relationships, peaceful parenting,

01:19:21and so on, and I have provided

01:19:23moral certainty for the first time

01:19:25in the history of philosophy

01:19:27and an airtight defense

01:19:29of free will,

01:19:31rejection of

01:19:33determinism,

01:19:35and a rejection of the

01:19:37simulation thesis of

01:19:39Scott Adams and René Descartes.

01:19:43So I am beginning to accept

01:19:45what I have done,

01:19:47but I need a lot of empirical evidence

01:19:49to accept proof.

01:19:51Outlandish claims require

01:19:53excessive proof.

01:19:57Things which are very, very hard to believe

01:19:59need a lot of proof.

01:20:01Things which are virtually impossible

01:20:03need a massive amount of proof.

01:20:05And it is virtually impossible,

01:20:07despite my lineage of

01:20:09philosophical ancestors.

01:20:11It is so ridiculously

01:20:13improbable that my

01:20:15studies in philosophy have flowered

01:20:17in this kind of way,

01:20:19that I just needed a ridiculous amount

01:20:21of proof to even really accept it at all.

01:20:23I've sort of been working on it

01:20:25over the last couple of weeks, just saying,

01:20:27looking back over sort of the body of work

01:20:29and the effects that I have, and the inbox that I have,

01:20:31and all of that.

01:20:37I can look back and say

01:20:39what I have done is now empirically

01:20:41verified.

01:20:43Nobody's been able to overturn UPB. It's been 15 years.

01:20:45A lot of people have tried.

01:20:53And the odds that

01:20:55philosophy

01:20:57and this ability, and this willpower,

01:20:59and this resolution,

01:21:01and this focus

01:21:03would all have coalesced

01:21:05into me, along with, you know, a fairly pleasant

01:21:07speaking voice, a vaguely intelligent accent,

01:21:09and a not-unpleasing physical appearance,

01:21:11that all of this

01:21:13would have landed on me to advance philosophy

01:21:15in this kind of way, is so ridiculously

01:21:17improbable.

01:21:19I mean, who was the last famous

01:21:21philosopher? Philosopher!

01:21:23Not thinker, not intellectual.

01:21:25First principles.

01:21:27Reason

01:21:29from the void philosopher.

01:21:31Who was the last

01:21:33popular

01:21:35philosopher?

01:21:37Maybe Bertrand Russell, but he

01:21:39was more analyzing other people's work.

01:21:43Who had a real effect on the world?

01:21:45Who actually helped spread and improve

01:21:47virtue and ethics

01:21:49in a practical manner?

01:21:53Not one of these

01:21:57Hey man, maybe we're living

01:21:59in a simulation. Well, Aristotle?

01:22:01Okay.

01:22:03Aristotle, obviously a very famous philosopher

01:22:05and one of the best in the biz.

01:22:07But in terms of

01:22:09creating

01:22:11practical virtues that people can measure,

01:22:13that people can live by?

01:22:15The pursuit

01:22:17of excellence, is eudaimonia, is the best?

01:22:19The pursuit of excellence, particularly in the realm

01:22:21of morality?

01:22:25Locke?

01:22:27Locke certainly had a big effect on

01:22:29economics, but not so much on

01:22:31parenting. And economics is not small.

01:22:33So,

01:22:35but anyway, let's just say

01:22:37it's been a long time.

01:22:39Been a long time,

01:22:41been a long time, been a long

01:22:43lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,

01:22:45lonely time.

01:22:47Yeah, it's been a while.

01:22:49It's been a while.

01:22:53So,

01:22:57very, very odd.

01:23:03Would donate, says someone, cleaning up my life.

01:23:05Broke, but later more donations.

01:23:07Used to donate more and I will. Can't thank you enough.

01:23:09Every day life gets better, truly.

01:23:11Beautiful, thank you very much.

01:23:13Hey, good to see the most banned man

01:23:15on the internet. You know, you were the only man

01:23:17in Lauren Southern's tell-all who said she was

01:23:19a good man through it all. That's right,

01:23:21I did watch that. I thought it was very interesting.

01:23:23Are you Jewish? I am not Jewish.

01:23:25I had

01:23:27a Jewish step

01:23:29grandmother, but I was raised as a Christian

01:23:31and have no particular connection

01:23:33with the Jewish community

01:23:35except that I was influenced

01:23:37by a lot of Jewish thinkers. I mean, a lot of non-Jewish

01:23:39thinkers, but a lot of

01:23:41Jewish thinkers. Don't forget how good your singing

01:23:43is. Thank you, I appreciate that. That's very

01:23:45kind. I had a better singing voice before

01:23:47I got my nerves. I got a bit of a droop

01:23:49here, got my nerves drilled like crazy

01:23:51to remove an ankylose tooth.

01:23:53But I appreciate that. I do

01:23:55like to warble from time to time.

01:24:01Alright, what else do we have here?

01:24:03Still can't work out if you're left

01:24:05or right. You contradict yourself all the time.

01:24:09Still can't... Oh, are you the guy who leaves

01:24:11all of these vengeful comments on my

01:24:13rumble?

01:24:1517 comments from this user.

01:24:17It's not going to be nice.

01:24:19Are you French or French descent or

01:24:21ancestry?

01:24:23Your name looks kind of French. Also, the music is a bit loud.

01:24:25I kind of... hard to hear you.

01:24:27Okay, I guess the music where you are.

01:24:29I am of French descent. My ancestors

01:24:31came over from France with William the Conqueror

01:24:33in 1066 in the Battle of Hastings and

01:24:35ended up as aristocracy

01:24:37in Ireland. Officially,

01:24:39I have an ESQ, short for

01:24:41Esquire, at the end of my name.

01:24:43And I am in the registry

01:24:45of all of that.

01:24:47Thank God you decided to become

01:24:49a philosopher and not a singer. That's very true.

01:24:51I think that's very fair. I think that's very fair.

01:24:55Somehow Don't Abuse Your Kids escaped all those Greco-Romans

01:24:57and theologians and such. Crazy how that works.

01:24:59Well, um, didn't escape

01:25:01Jesus.

01:25:03Didn't escape Jesus.

01:25:09I said, baby,

01:25:11baby, baby,

01:25:13I'm gonna leave you.

01:25:17Leave you in the summertime.

01:25:19Leave you

01:25:21when the summer comes along.

01:25:23Molyneux,

01:25:25do you Esquire? Yes, officially

01:25:27it is. Thank you for the tip. I

01:25:29appreciate that. Also,

01:25:31thanks for the answer just now. You are very welcome.

01:25:33You are very welcome.

01:25:35I don't have really much connection

01:25:37with French history.

01:25:39And I suppose,

01:25:41I mean, I was born in Ireland,

01:25:43but I spent most of my childhood in England,

01:25:45in various places in England.

01:25:47And then moved to Canada

01:25:49when I was 11.

01:25:51I mean,

01:25:53I certainly think of myself

01:25:55as European, in that sense.

01:25:57And my moral

01:25:59history is specifically

01:26:01Christian. I was raised

01:26:03as a Christian. I went to church

01:26:05when I was in boarding school from the age of 6

01:26:07onwards. We went to church twice

01:26:09a week. I was in the choir

01:26:11and Sunday school,

01:26:13and I was raised as a staunch

01:26:15Christian.

01:26:17And I'm uncircumcised.

01:26:19I'm uncircumcised.

01:26:21I'd show you,

01:26:23but I don't have

01:26:25fisheye lens widescreen.

01:26:27Very, very important.

01:26:33No, and look, I mentioned that I had a Jewish grandmother

01:26:35without specifying that it was a step-grandmother

01:26:37and all of that.

01:26:41Did you ever play

01:26:43lawn darts? I did not.

01:26:45I did not,

01:26:47but, you know, we had our own dangerous games

01:26:49when I was a kid.

01:26:51Do you have any additional comments regarding the

01:26:53RFK endorsement?

01:26:57Didn't they just pull his

01:26:59social security detail

01:27:01after his father and uncle were killed

01:27:03in this way?

01:27:07You're welcome for the quick answer.

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01:27:23Amazing, fantastic work, I think.

01:27:25In my own not-so-humble

01:27:27opinion, but you

01:27:29get that. Free Domain, the only

01:27:31philosophy show with penis jokes.

01:27:33There should be more.

01:27:35There should be more.

01:27:37There, what was it?

01:27:39It was a libertarian guy.

01:27:41The comedian who

01:27:43ended up hosting The Price is Right, basically

01:27:45got kind of bored out to drop libertarianism

01:27:47and warble at middle-aged women about

01:27:49the prices of things. He had a TV

01:27:51show for a while. Anyway, he had

01:27:53an entire, what was it, 20 minutes

01:27:55of My Dick is So Big jokes, which I thought was

01:27:57just hilarious. My dick is so big, it only

01:27:59plays stadiums. Things like that.

01:28:01It was very, very funny.

01:28:03I got here kind of late, but I think the

01:28:05reminder if you don't deserve the best is always valuable.

01:28:09Yeah, you know, it's funny that

01:28:11people say, they don't say,

01:28:13I must provide the best.

01:28:15You must provide the best.

01:28:17You must provide the best.

01:28:19I think about occasionally

01:28:21in Magnolia, this

01:28:23Rage Against the Breast,

01:28:25Tom Cruise screaming, just do your job!

01:28:27Do your effing job!

01:28:29You must provide the best.

01:28:31Drew Carey. That's right, lost tons of weight.

01:28:33Yes, Drew Carey.

01:28:37So, you must provide the best.

01:28:39You must be the best. You must provide the best.

01:28:41Nope, it's always, you deserve the best.

01:28:43You deserve a break.

01:28:45You deserve the best. You deserve a treat.

01:28:51Does Steph have the best body of any philosopher in history?

01:28:53It depends whether the statue of David

01:28:55comes to life and quotes UPB.

01:28:57That's the only question.

01:29:05I've never watched Henry Cavill. I know he was in

01:29:07The Witcher, which I

01:29:09barely played and have never watched.

01:29:15He was called an incel due to

01:29:17rumors that he doesn't want wokeness to mess with

01:29:19the established lore of his favorite franchises.

01:29:21This made him tough to work with.

01:29:23Well, when you have a passion

01:29:25for accuracy and conformity

01:29:27with lore, then

01:29:29what happens is you interfere

01:29:31with the parasites

01:29:33who cluster around art

01:29:35in order to program the people

01:29:37to be subjugated.

01:29:39Right? Oh, yes, he was in

01:29:41Superman, right? Yeah.

01:29:51Yeah, so, of course,

01:29:53a lot of stuff on social media is

01:29:55just pre-programmed psyops.

01:29:57I mean, if you've been

01:29:59on

01:30:01social media

01:30:03and you've been prominent on social media,

01:30:05which I was for many years, you just know

01:30:07there's an absolute swarm of psyops.

01:30:09Very little of it, in terms of controversial

01:30:11stuff, is organic.

01:30:13It's just a massive

01:30:15swarm of psyops.

01:30:17So, for instance, is it beneficial

01:30:19for the powers

01:30:21that be if men

01:30:23remain pornography

01:30:25addicted, playing video games,

01:30:27overweight, and unhealthy? Yep!

01:30:29Because then women don't want to choose them.

01:30:31They get single, and then women vote for more government.

01:30:35So, I would not assume that too much

01:30:37of this is organic. I assume it's all

01:30:39a psyop, right? I mean,

01:30:41this is sort of fifth-generation warfare.

01:30:43Right? Fifth-generation warfare

01:30:45is you don't fight with weapons,

01:30:47you fight...

01:30:49So, weaponry is about killing people.

01:30:51Fifth-generation warfare is about preventing

01:30:53people from being born through

01:30:55propaganda, right?

01:30:57Men are pigs, men are toxic,

01:30:59and, you know,

01:31:01you can do better, and MGTOW. I'm not saying

01:31:03everyone involved with these phenomenon

01:31:05is a psyop, but

01:31:07warfare is about reducing

01:31:09the population

01:31:11through the attrition of low birth rates.

01:31:13You don't have to kill people in warfare

01:31:15if you can simply program people to not

01:31:17give birth, right?

01:31:19So, this is what warfare is these days.

01:31:21It's a warfare against...

01:31:23It used to be a war against the male muscle,

01:31:25now it's a war against the female

01:31:27womb, right?

01:31:33Yeah, Penn Jillette used to be libertarian.

01:31:35I actually have a friend who met Penn Jillette

01:31:37and was extremely disappointed by that.

01:31:41Razorfist has also been

01:31:43talking about leftists parasiting popular culture

01:31:45since they're creatively bankrupt themselves.

01:31:47So, yeah, all the power

01:31:49mongers, when some

01:31:51popular piece of art is created, all the

01:31:53power mongers swarm in and attempt

01:31:55to wrestle it. You can see this with Star Wars and Star Trek

01:31:57and other things. All of the

01:31:59power mongers seek to

01:32:03swarm in and hijack

01:32:05it for their own particular purposes. This even

01:32:07happened with the Dungeons and Dragons movie,

01:32:09which I thought would be a bit of a bastion

01:32:11of not

01:32:13being able to do that, right?

01:32:19When does Freda Mayne get a dance on a rooftop in New York

01:32:21with headphones?

01:32:25I feel

01:32:27grateful that this is the warfare now. Being propagandized

01:32:29sounds better than being killed on the battlefield.

01:32:31Yeah.

01:32:33I mean,

01:32:35in a sense, instead of men being drafted,

01:32:37women are being sterilized through propaganda.

01:32:39And, um,

01:32:41at least with propaganda you have a choice. You don't have

01:32:43a choice if

01:32:45a bomb drops on your

01:32:47trench, right?

01:32:49You don't have a choice. You just get blown up, right?

01:32:51You don't have a choice if you either

01:32:53have to run into machine gun fire or they shoot you

01:32:55down in the trench, right? You don't have a choice in that.

01:32:57Propaganda is

01:32:59weeding out those susceptible to propaganda.

01:33:01I can have lots of different opinions

01:33:03about this, almost all of which would get me in significant

01:33:05trouble, but it is a simple fact

01:33:07that propaganda is weeding

01:33:09out those susceptible

01:33:11to propaganda.

01:33:17And the end results

01:33:19of that are very interesting.

01:33:21The end results of that

01:33:23are very interesting, but there is

01:33:25an absolute

01:33:27goal of getting people

01:33:29to stop having babies by

01:33:31having them raise their expectations

01:33:33by normalizing being physically

01:33:35unattractive with

01:33:37pornography, with

01:33:39unrealistic expectations

01:33:41of every kind, and so

01:33:43on, right? And so there is an

01:33:45absolute thirst and hunger

01:33:47for

01:33:49depopulation.

01:33:51I mean, this is very clear.

01:33:53This is nothing unusual. I've talked about it a lot,

01:33:55and you can see in almost every developed nation

01:33:57the birth rates are crashing. It's not by accident.

01:33:59It doesn't just happen, right?

01:34:01And

01:34:03it is

01:34:05the

01:34:07taking

01:34:09out of the gene pool

01:34:11those who are most susceptible to propaganda.

01:34:13It's complicated.

01:34:15It's complicated.

01:34:17It's complicated.

01:34:19I heard Lauren Southern

01:34:21stopped sponsoring you. That's why you

01:34:23were deplatformed.

01:34:25Then you blamed the right for

01:34:27ADL money.

01:34:29I'm not sure

01:34:31what that means.

01:34:33Stopped sponsoring you.

01:34:35I'm not sure what

01:34:37sponsoring... I never took

01:34:39any money from Lauren Southern.

01:34:41I don't know what that means.

01:34:43That's why you were deplatformed.

01:34:45No, I was deplatformed in my view because it was

01:34:47an election year.

01:34:49And people can count.

01:34:51So I don't know what it means when you say

01:34:53Lauren Southern stopped sponsoring me.

01:34:57I don't know what that means.

01:34:59She never gave me money.

01:35:01I mean, we did shows together. We did

01:35:03a tour together.

01:35:05But I don't know what that means.

01:35:07Lots of things you hear.

01:35:09Lots of people

01:35:11talking. Very few of them know.

01:35:17All right.

01:35:19Let's see here.

01:35:21Another way that you cripple people's military

01:35:23is you have them focus on

01:35:25non-military goals. And you make the leadership

01:35:27so ridiculous that nobody wants to

01:35:29join.

01:35:33Somebody says, I have a question. A user on

01:35:35Quora asks about their being embarrassed that

01:35:37at age 12 their dad is 57.

01:35:39Is that a normal age for parents? Then commented on how

01:35:41his friend's parents were under 30.

01:35:43They were called out on that math, of course.

01:35:45But most of the comments were saying it is normal

01:35:47for a near teen to be embarrassed by everything about

01:35:49their parents. That they should be grateful to have a father in their

01:35:51lives. Also many users said that they were

01:35:53themselves or friends with people who had multiple siblings

01:35:55and there was that larger and larger gap

01:35:57between a parent and the youngest child.

01:35:59I would just be curious how you

01:36:01would respond to the question.

01:36:03So

01:36:05being embarrassed

01:36:07at age 12 that their dad is 57

01:36:11I mean, that's actually not that

01:36:13far off for me.

01:36:15So at 57

01:36:17the dad had the kid at

01:36:1945 if the kid's 12

01:36:21give or take, right?

01:36:23And is that

01:36:25a normal age for parents? I mean, I don't know.

01:36:27So, I mean, there are minuses, of course.

01:36:29There are minuses to having an older parent, but there are

01:36:31pluses as well. And the pluses are

01:36:33there tends to be more money around, there tends

01:36:35to be more job security, there

01:36:37tends to be more

01:36:39wisdom that has been accumulated and so on.

01:36:41So there are benefits and there are costs.

01:36:43But nobody's embarrassed.

01:36:45Teenagers are not embarrassed except

01:36:47by what their friends are embarrassed by.

01:36:49So the real embarrassment is

01:36:51the dad putting their kid

01:36:53into a situation

01:36:55where the kid's friends are going to be making

01:36:57fun of

01:36:59him for having an old dad, right?

01:37:01Which means that the

01:37:03friends are lame. How long did it take

01:37:05you to write Just Poor?

01:37:07That was one of the longest ones

01:37:09for me to write.

01:37:11So Just Poor came in two phases.

01:37:13One, I

01:37:15wrote in about

01:37:17four months. I wrote the first, third,

01:37:19and then I completely hit the wall and didn't know how

01:37:21to continue the story.

01:37:23And then I

01:37:25ended up finishing it, and then

01:37:27I had an agent who

01:37:29looked at the book and really liked it, except

01:37:31for the last third, so I ended up

01:37:33renting a cottage in England for

01:37:35two weeks and then rewriting the last third.

01:37:37And it was a funny thing. It's the only time where I couldn't write

01:37:39by... I brought a computer and

01:37:41I couldn't write by typing. I just couldn't write by typing.

01:37:43It's the only time that ever happened. I actually had to hand

01:37:45write it. It's the only way that the inspiration

01:37:47would come.

01:37:49And so I

01:37:51spent another couple of weeks

01:37:53writing the ending. So I would say probably

01:37:55about six or seven months

01:37:57as a whole. But I'm actually

01:37:59a Spada guy. I'm glad

01:38:01you're coming here and asking these questions, because

01:38:03I mean, there's a lot of rumors.

01:38:05A lot of rumors.

01:38:07All right.

01:38:13Questions, comments,

01:38:15issues, challenges.

01:38:17Is Led Zeppelin one of your favorite Zap albums?

01:38:19I don't

01:38:21in particular love

01:38:23Led Zeppelin. I mean,

01:38:25I'm a big singing guy, so I appreciate Robert Plant's banshee shrill of a voice.

01:38:30It's a shame that he destroyed it over the course of touring in the 70s.

01:38:35And it's dark.

01:38:36I mean, it's dark and evil in a similar way to the way that The Doors is kind of dark

01:38:42and evil.

01:38:43I think that Led Zeppelin is sort of a portal to hell as a whole.

01:38:50And I'm sort of mixed.

01:38:51Some of their songs I really like, some of the songs I really can't stand.

01:38:54But yeah, it's all very dark.

01:38:57Somebody says, how many thoughts or advice I have been helping someone and it has got

01:39:01me into debt.

01:39:02I know I should stop, but I love this person.

01:39:04Well, do you or are you just attached?

01:39:08Do you love the person in your life?

01:39:09Are you anxious if they're not there?

01:39:10It's really kind of important, right?

01:39:12In other words, are you of such low companionship that you have to give people money in order

01:39:18to keep them in your life?

01:39:19Well, that's an anxiety about your worth as a friend and as a person as a whole.

01:39:23Love is our involuntary response to virtue if we're virtuous, right?

01:39:27And so if you claim to love someone who's exploiting you, then it would be the case

01:39:37that it's not love.

01:39:40Love is our involuntary response to virtue if we're virtuous.

01:39:42And if you have to pay someone and they're exploiting you, it's not love.

01:39:46You're just afraid of being alone, which I completely understand.

01:39:50It's a good rocket at midnight.

01:39:51It's a great Robert Blancon with the honey drippers.

01:39:55Moon Zappa, Frank Zappa's daughter, recently wrote an autobiography about her abusive childhood.

01:40:00Yeah, Frank Zappa was another dark, creepy, fairly negative, hostile individual.

01:40:06Very, very dark.

01:40:07Very, very dark.

01:40:09Mr. Sting.

01:40:10I hope it's not too late to ask a bigger question.

01:40:12I'm trying to be concise.

01:40:13What am I doing and how can I stop walking into this dynamic with people where they basically

01:40:17do this whole, everything about me and what I do is perfect and everything about you and

01:40:20what you do is garbage, unless you're praising me, of course.

01:40:22I hope that makes sense.

01:40:24I think I have issues with codependent attachment.

01:40:38So as a child, you were bullied into serving a vain person's ego and you're continuing

01:40:44that pattern, which means you put out signals that you're just happy to be wide-eyed and

01:40:48praise someone and people are exploiting that.

01:40:52So you have to go back and deal with the sorrow of having been exploited by a narcissist since

01:40:57I think that's what happened.

01:40:59If you were exploited by a narcissist as a child, then you will have that habit of appeasing

01:41:08and serving narcissistic vanity as an adult.

01:41:12And the only way to solve that is to go through the pain and anger of having been exploited

01:41:17as a child.

01:41:20Let's see here.

01:41:29Somebody asked an interesting question, where did it go?

01:41:35Did I miss that?

01:41:38I thought it was a question about Trump.

01:41:40Trump.

01:41:41Where did it go?

01:41:42Did it get deleted?

01:41:43Where did it go?

01:41:44Okay, so somebody asked a question, I will, I can't find it, but the question was something

01:41:55like, some libertarian said that you sold out by supporting Trump and that this was

01:42:02a massive catastrophe and maybe hypocrisy or something like this, that I sold out by

01:42:10supporting Trump.

01:42:11Well, I'm not sure what you mean by supporting Trump.

01:42:15I never told anyone to vote for Trump.

01:42:19I never told anyone to vote for Trump.

01:42:21What I did was I pushed back on the lies that the media was telling.

01:42:27So if it is not the job of a philosopher to push back against falsehoods, then I think

01:42:32people are misunderstanding, people are kind of misunderstanding the purpose of philosophy.

01:42:39The purpose of philosophy is to tell the truth.

01:42:44And there were lots of lies about Trump, and I pushed back on those lies about Trump.

01:42:55And there was, of course, in the back of my mind, the idea that if Trump, who was

01:43:01a free market guy, to a large degree, he's tariff-based, but a free market guy to a large

01:43:05degree, that he might be able to grow the economy to the point where people could get

01:43:08weaned off welfare and there wouldn't be a general collapse.

01:43:12It was a long shot, I get that, but I thought that was an interesting possibility.

01:43:18Trump also, as a white male, white males generally tend to be the most solid free speech absolutist,

01:43:23so it gave more of a chance for free speech for a certain amount of time.

01:43:26And I wouldn't say that it was particularly the end of the world that there weren't any

01:43:31wars for four years.

01:43:35So I'm big into the non-aggression principle, and certainly businessmen tend to be less

01:43:39pro-war.

01:43:40My politicians, and he was not a politician really, but businessmen tend to be not pro-war.

01:43:47People don't like blowing up buildings, in particular, who are in real estate because

01:43:50they know how hard it is to build them.

01:43:53So, you know, for the people who helped get Trump across the finish line, I wouldn't put

01:43:58myself in that category because I was just responding to the lies about him, but people

01:44:03who helped get Trump across the finish line, you know, probably saved half a million lives.

01:44:10It's not bad, but that's not bad.

01:44:16And the other thing too, so back in the day when I, and I was still doing peaceful parenting

01:44:22and all that kind of stuff as well, so my problem back in the day when I was critical

01:44:27of the people who were pursuing the Ron Paul thing is that Ron Paul could never be elected

01:44:30president.

01:44:31It just wasn't there.

01:44:32The numbers weren't there.

01:44:33So it was kind of a waste of time and resources and energy.

01:44:35And I wanted people to not say that the only solution is politics, right?

01:44:41And so Ron Paul could never have been elected president, and the Libertarian Party has never

01:44:47polled or achieved much above a couple of percent over 50, 60 years.

01:44:52They barely got a couple of percent.

01:44:55So that's not going to work.

01:44:56And I was annoyed at the fact that people were pursuing a fantasy solution of Ron Paul

01:45:02presidency at the expense of peaceful parenting, which was actually practical.

01:45:05But I did say to all the people back in the day, and you can find all of this at FDRpodcast.com,

01:45:11I did say, if you believe that there's value in a political candidate, go for it, a hundred

01:45:15percent.

01:45:16Yeah.

01:45:17A hundred percent.

01:45:18So yeah, I, you know, it's funny how libertarians basically say fuck all about peaceful parenting

01:45:27as a whole, right?

01:45:29So libertarians are not opposing the widest violation of the non-aggression principle

01:45:38that exists in the world, right?

01:45:39Oh, for the non-aggression principle.

01:45:41Well, okay.

01:45:42So what is the most prevalent violation of the non-aggression principle that people can

01:45:46do the most about?

01:45:47Well, it's spanking.

01:45:48It's abusive parenting.

01:45:50That is indisputable.

01:45:52The most widespread violation of the non-aggression principle that people can do the most about

01:45:57is child abuse.

01:46:00And libertarians don't talk about that.

01:46:03I mean, a few do.

01:46:04Dave Smith, a couple other people have mentioned it here and there, but they're all keen to

01:46:07debate politics and Gaza and war and incest and like, they're all keen to debate this

01:46:13abstract stuff that really has very little impact on people's life, right?

01:46:23So they still haven't learned their lesson, right?

01:46:25They still haven't learned their lesson.

01:46:27How many libertarians have you seen reviewing my book on peaceful parenting?

01:46:32Right, zero.

01:46:35So libertarians refuse, refuse, refuse, refuse, refuse to deal with the most widespread violation

01:46:47of the non-aggression principle that people can do the most about.

01:46:54People absolutely, in the libertarian community, absolutely refuse to deal with that.

01:47:05And then they nag me for pushing back against media lies about Trump in 2015.

01:47:11Yes, yes, that's the big problem, everyone.

01:47:16It's not that literally billions of children are getting beaten half to death around the

01:47:20world, which is creating a traumatized and violent future that has people fully believe

01:47:24in the need for the power of the state, that criminals are being produced at mass industrial

01:47:28scale by abusive parents.

01:47:30No, no, that's not the issue.

01:47:32The issue is that Steph pushed back against some lies in 2015.

01:47:36Oh my gosh.

01:47:41It's so embarrassing.

01:47:42Oh my, it's so, it's so fundamentally unserious.

01:47:46And it's like, okay, I get it.

01:47:48I get it.

01:47:49It's all around the world.

01:47:51Yes, it's so much fun to warble on about the Federal Reserve and inflation and Austrian

01:47:56economic theory and foreign aid.

01:47:59Yeah, it's great fun.

01:48:01Doesn't change a goddamn thing, but it sure is fun to talk about.

01:48:03And you sure feel like some kind of warrior because you're not actually disturbing the

01:48:06interests of one single immoral person in the world.

01:48:11And I started making the case close to 20 years ago about the need to focus on parenting.

01:48:14And if libertarians had focused on parenting, we'd have an entire generation of adults raised

01:48:18peacefully now.

01:48:20Millions and millions of adults raised peacefully now, we'd have an ironclad proof of the value

01:48:26of the non-aggression principle in a practical, actionable manner.

01:48:30Nope.

01:48:31Instead, we've tossed hundreds of millions of dollars at people who've not achieved anything.

01:48:36And we have avoided parenting and we've avoided helping the children.

01:48:39That's the libertarian, noble libertarian approach, is talk about the things you can't

01:48:44change, waste money on things that won't change, and never talk about the things that you could

01:48:47change in perfect accordance with your values and prove all of the joys and glories of the

01:48:52non-aggression principle to the world.

01:48:54Nope.

01:48:56Nope.

01:48:58Nope.

01:49:01I have not seen a single libertarian.

01:49:04Now, I will say that the guys at Lodacitas had me on to talk about peaceful parenting,

01:49:08which is very nice, and I appreciated that.

01:49:10So I'm not saying everyone, right?

01:49:11There are some people who get it.

01:49:13But the idea that libertarians would have anything to nag me about when it comes to

01:49:22integrity to my principle.

01:49:25Yeah, you all keep talking about the Federal Reserve and I'll prevent millions of children

01:49:33from being beaten.

01:49:37That's the ticket.

01:49:38You all keep wobbling on about the need for a more rational and sane foreign policy and

01:49:43the need to reduce consumer regulations and a simplified tax code.

01:49:46You all keep doing that, which you've been doing decade after fucking decade after fucking

01:49:51decade after fucking decade, achieving virtually nothing.

01:49:54And I'll do my little bit to apparently have no integrity and consistency by changing the

01:50:03course of the lives of millions of children so that they don't get beaten.

01:50:08And I guess at the end, you're going to just have to live with your own conscience and

01:50:12I'm going to have to live with mine.

01:50:14It's true.

01:50:15I could have followed your path and done nothing to expand the non-aggression principle, or

01:50:21I could have used my mind as a shield against abuse for literally millions, tens of millions

01:50:26of children so that they're not getting beaten, not getting screamed at, not getting abused.

01:50:34Tens of millions of children are not getting abused because of what I've done over the

01:50:38last 20 years and before that even.

01:50:42So if you care about the non-aggression principle, is it me or the political libertarians who've

01:50:48done more to protect people from violations of the non-aggression principle?

01:50:54I leave it to your discretion to follow that particular rabbit hole to the core of truth.

01:51:02So libertarians are like, well, yes, but Steph has a bad reputation.

01:51:06It's like, yes, yes, it's true that if you harm the interests of evil people, they will

01:51:11tell lies about you.

01:51:14That's the price.

01:51:15That's the deal.

01:51:17They just love...

01:51:18Because look, the problem that libertarians have, and again, there's exceptions, but the

01:51:22problem libertarians have is not with me, it's with their own conscience.

01:51:26Because now the evidence is in, right?

01:51:28The evidence is in.

01:51:29Thank you, Lorraine.

01:51:30The evidence is in and it's very clear.

01:51:32Who has done more to promote the non-aggression principle and protect people from violence,

01:51:37political libertarians or me?

01:51:41The plan that I put forward 18 years ago was to focus on parenting.

01:51:46And it doesn't mean that you can't do anything on politics, I certainly have, but to focus

01:51:49on parenting, to focus on the protection of children.

01:51:53And they have not done that.

01:51:56They have not done...

01:51:58They've not taken my part to focus on the protection of children, because they said,

01:52:02to heck with protecting children, the important thing is to work in the realm of libertarian

01:52:06politics.

01:52:07And what has libertarian politics done to reduce the spread of the non-aggression, the

01:52:12spread of violence and aggression in the world?

01:52:15Is the government smaller?

01:52:17Are the taxes lower?

01:52:18Is the debt less?

01:52:19Did the government powers, have they decreased?

01:52:21Well, no, it's gone quite the opposite way.

01:52:23So I predicted that if you focused on politics, then violence would spread.

01:52:29And if you focused on parenting, violence would decrease overall.

01:52:36And they said, no, no, you're crazy.

01:52:38That's nuts.

01:52:40You go mess about with your parenting stuff, we'll focus on politics.

01:52:43And now listen, if they had been able to solve the problem of politics, then I would be the

01:52:48first person to say, holy crap, wow, tax rate is down to 5%.

01:52:54You've got a flat tax and the government has shrunk by half or three quarters.

01:52:56Like, holy crap, you guys were totally right.

01:52:58You were absolutely right to pursue this path.

01:53:01I was completely in the wrong.

01:53:03I humbly concede the point and, you know, good for you, right?

01:53:11However, of course, if we look at the size and power of the state, the amount of the

01:53:15debt and the proliferation of laws and the hostility to free speech that has only increased

01:53:21in the last 20 years, all of this has gotten far worse over the last 20 years.

01:53:26Whereas parenting, the parenting that I've been able to influence has improved.

01:53:30So they poured their energy into trying to reduce the size and power of the state as

01:53:34a way of combating violations of the non-aggression principle.

01:53:38I said, that's not going to work.

01:53:40But what we can do is focus on parenting because that is the most widespread.

01:53:45Abusive parenting, violent parenting is the vast majority of people in the world.

01:53:49It is the most widespread violation of the non-aggression principle and something which

01:53:53we can do something about.

01:53:54We can't really influence foreign policy as mere intellectuals, but we can convince people

01:53:58to stop beating their children.

01:54:00So we each took a path and they said my path was foolish and I said their path was foolish

01:54:08and the data is in.

01:54:10The data is in and it's utterly, completely and totally irrefutable.

01:54:19So, I mean, will they admit it?

01:54:28Nope.

01:54:29Because here's the thing, right?

01:54:30Here's the thing.

01:54:32The conscience is a pretty grim beast and people who can't admit they're wrong about

01:54:44very essential areas that they claim are fundamentally moral, people who can't admit that they're

01:54:48wrong have a really bad conscience.

01:54:50So the libertarians, they're not ignoring me, they're not ignoring peaceful parenting,

01:54:56they're not doing any of that.

01:54:57They are trying to avoid their own conscience.

01:55:00So everybody who has not accepted and spread the message of peaceful parenting is responsible

01:55:05for the continued beatings of uncountable numbers of children.

01:55:12This isn't even an argument, this is just foundational, it's almost tautological.

01:55:16So by rejecting and scorning the message of peaceful parenting, as most libertarians

01:55:21have done, or rejecting and ignoring the message of peaceful parenting, by failing to spread

01:55:25the message of peaceful parenting, they are responsible for uncountable numbers of children

01:55:29continuing to be abused and beaten.

01:55:32Now I would not want that on my conscience, right?

01:55:35I'm very sensitive to my own conscience.

01:55:38My own conscience is a wonderful pet and a terrible master.

01:55:43And so I can't imagine what it would be like to be sitting on, oh that stuff guy is crazy,

01:55:49we're going politics, and then the politics have just gotten worse and worse, and there's

01:55:54uncountable numbers of children who've continued to be beaten because you have not promoted

01:55:59peaceful parenting.

01:56:04So they're not bothered by me, they're bothered by their own conscience.

01:56:09You took a path to virtue that sacrificed uncountable numbers of children to uncountable

01:56:15numbers of child abusers to pursue politics which have only gotten worse.

01:56:22So you haven't achieved any of your goals, in fact everything that you say you wanted

01:56:26to achieve has gotten almost infinitely worse, and you haven't protected the children.

01:56:31You left the children in the company of wolves to be mutilated, chewed on, torn apart, and

01:56:37abused, and those children are in your mind.

01:56:41Those children are in your mind.

01:56:43I don't think I could have done more to promote peaceful parenting than I did.

01:56:49So my conscience is very clear.

01:56:51My conscience is very clear.

01:56:57I interviewed all the experts, I made all the arguments, I put together all the presentations,

01:57:01I got all the data.

01:57:06I don't know that there's many people around who've worked harder to protect children and

01:57:10improve the family than I have.

01:57:14I mean I've burned my entire reputation to the ground in order to help protect children

01:57:19and I'm not the first and I'm certainly not the last.

01:57:23So all of those who said peaceful parenting is not the way to go, I'm going to ignore

01:57:30the children's suffering and I'm going to focus on my own political fetishes, knows

01:57:35deep down that there are tens of thousands of children that they could have protected

01:57:41from being beaten, that they left behind in order to pursue their addiction for politics

01:57:45and their avoidance of virtue.

01:57:47Now having those children in your mind, if you look back and you say Steph was right,

01:57:52I should have 20 years ago started promoting peaceful parenting, and we should have had

01:57:58an anti-spanking article every other week, and still do a bit of politics, that's fine.

01:58:06We should have had him come and talk about this, we should have had a real robust debate

01:58:09about that, we should have really promoted the peaceful parenting stuff, because that

01:58:13is dedication to the non-aggression principle, the most widespread violation that you can

01:58:17do the most about is exactly what you should focus on.

01:58:20Of course, of course.

01:58:23So for the libertarians who've scorned and rejected my message, they've harmed children.

01:58:31They've harmed children.

01:58:33And if there's one thing that will mess up your conscience, it's harming children.

01:58:39I can't help them with that, I made as positive and enthusiastic a case as possible, I really

01:58:46did.

01:58:48I made jokes about it, I made powerpoints about it, I spoke about it, I preached about

01:58:53it, I wrote about it, I did as much as humanly possible, in every passionate way possible,

01:58:59to promote this so my conscience is clear, and I can control myself, I can't control

01:59:03the actions and behaviors of others.

01:59:10So I can't turn back time, and not even the gods can change a bad conscience.

01:59:23What we do gets recorded, whether we like it or not, the choices we make get recorded

01:59:27whether we like it or not.

01:59:29And people were chased away from me by bad actors, and they were happy to run, and they

01:59:36could have taken up the mantle of peaceful parenting without even referencing me.

01:59:39I don't care, I don't want the credit, I just want the children to be protected, that's

01:59:43all I want, is for people to stop harming children.

01:59:49Forget about me, it doesn't matter.

01:59:54And people have chosen to be eaten up by the lower intestine sandworms of political

02:00:00action, which has achieved less than nothing, it's worse now than it was when you started,

02:00:05and they have avoided protecting children.

02:00:07Now I mean they could try to rescue their conscience by reversing course, but after

02:00:11a certain amount, you can't.

02:00:14I mean if I had spent 20 years of my public life not protecting children, but instead

02:00:21pursuing a course that only made things worse, I can't tell you.

02:00:24I mean I don't know how I'd get out of bed in the morning.

02:00:28I don't know.

02:00:32It's not parents abusing children, it's ZOG.

02:00:36Parents have free will.

02:00:39Parents have free will.

02:00:43Steph what you've done is priceless, thank you from me and all future unborn children.

02:00:48And I wanted people to promote peaceful parenting, not just for the sake of the children, but

02:00:51for the sake of their own conscience.

02:00:53And again, some have, some have, but most have not, and most won't admit it.

02:01:01Most won't admit it.

02:01:03And I can't do anything about that.

02:01:07I can't undo what people have chosen to do.

02:01:10I made my very best case, pushed it forward as much as possible, and if people choose

02:01:15to do the opposite, I can't control that.

02:01:18And I certainly can't control the effects on their conscience.

02:01:24And of course anybody with any sense of honor and decency would come back and say, well

02:01:27we haven't achieved our political goals, but you certainly have reduced the non-aggression

02:01:32principle by protecting tens of millions of children, so you made the right choice.

02:01:43You made the right choice.

02:01:46You made the right choice.

02:01:49You've actually served the non-aggression principle, you've protected children.

02:01:53We wasted hundreds of millions of dollars in time and money on politics, and politics

02:02:00is far worse, and the parenting that you've influenced is far better.

02:02:06So you made the right choice, we made the wrong choice, we're sorry.

02:02:11And again, the apology wouldn't be to me, it would be to the children that you failed

02:02:15to protect.

02:02:18So I can't make people do the right thing.

02:02:21That's free will.

02:02:22I can't make people do the right thing.

02:02:23I can make the best case possible, but I can't make people do the right thing.

02:02:28And I certainly can't make people look back and say, well Steph, you eliminated far more

02:02:40violence in the world than we ever did.

02:02:43So you were right and we were wrong.

02:02:44I mean, the evidence is in.

02:02:46The evidence is in.

02:02:47Government is many, many times bigger now than it was 20 years ago.

02:02:54And yet, the people who've listened to peaceful parenting have stopped abusing their children.

02:02:59Yeah, if you want to address the drug epidemic, you need to address non-peaceful parenting,

02:03:03but yeah.

02:03:05See, virtue is not about what makes you feel good, virtue is about serving the values.

02:03:10It's about serving the virtues.

02:03:11I didn't in particular want to take on the parents.

02:03:14I didn't want to take on the abusive parents, right, because there's a lot of blowback in

02:03:18that and we've all seen that.

02:03:19I didn't really enjoy it, but philosophy and virtue is not about, well I like talking about

02:03:24Austrian economics, it's not about that.

02:03:27It's about serving the values.

02:03:29It's about expanding the non-aggression principle.

02:03:33And I made an airtight case.

02:03:36With every conceivable intellectual weapon at my disposal, I made an airtight case, genetically,

02:03:47in terms of self-knowledge, interviewing the experts, looking at the data, 100%.

02:03:55So I made an airtight case.

02:03:57People rejected it because they wanted to pursue their fetish of politics and they wanted

02:04:01to avoid actually annoying any evildoers.

02:04:06See, libertarianism in the political sense is just a place where people can go to pretend

02:04:12they're doing something.

02:04:14It's a way of neutering people.

02:04:20Because it never achieves its goals and people don't care.

02:04:23Because the goal is not to reduce the non-aggression principle, the goal is to feel like you're

02:04:27doing something.

02:04:31And actually reducing the non-aggression principle, they don't care about that.

02:04:34General.

02:04:35Again, in general, they don't care about that.

02:04:37They do care about feeling like they're doing something and apparently a lot of them like

02:04:40quite a lot of drugs, right?

02:04:42So they love their little conferences and their articles and their typing and their

02:04:47outrage, but in terms of actually doing the right thing and serving the values, not so

02:04:56much.

02:04:59I mean, I remember talking to a very prominent libertarian, I won't give out names, but

02:05:06a conference, one of the last ones I was ever really allowed to attend, but I remember talking

02:05:10to a very prominent libertarian all about the child abuse, the gabramete stuff and addiction

02:05:15as a self-management for child trauma, childhood trauma and so on and all of that, right?

02:05:22Never, you know, I went and spoke at a variety of places about all of this.

02:05:28I did the whole bomb in the brain at a speech in Toronto, I did another speech in Toronto

02:05:32about the addiction stuff, I was just doing this stuff continually.

02:05:42And now the avoidance is hardened into a permanence because if you've done the wrong thing for

02:05:4720 years and you've opposed the guy doing the right thing for 20 years or ignored him,

02:05:54which is an even more form, even more oppositional, what are you going to do?

02:05:59I mean, what are you going to do?

02:06:00People can't look at themselves that way.

02:06:03Almost nobody can look at themselves and say, I blew 20 years by not listening to the facts.

02:06:09It's almost impossible for people to do that.

02:06:12All right.

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